The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on activated carbon from China (A-570-904). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies under review entered April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024.

The Commerce Department has published the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (C-580-884). These final results, unchanged from the preliminary results, will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries in calendar year 2022.

The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel flat products from Japan (A-588-874). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Oct. 1, 2022, through Sept. 30, 2023.

The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from China (C-570-187). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after Aug. 1, 2025, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CVD on future entries only if it issues a CVD order.

The Commerce Department has released its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from China (A-570-186). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination take effect Aug. 15.

A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting imposition of antidumping duties and countervailing duties on high purity dissolving pulp (HPDP) from Brazil and Norway. Commerce now will decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. Rayonier Advanced Materials, Inc. and the United Steelworkers labor union requested the investigation.

On Aug. 13, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:

The FDA is warning retailers and consumers not to sell or use some imported cookware made from aluminum, brass, and aluminum alloys known as hindalium/hindolium or indalium/indolium, noting that FDA and state testing have found that they leach lead into food when used for cooking.

The USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service has set a $350 fee to be charged for each license issued authorizing imports of certain dairy articles according to the 2026 tariff rate quota year, it said in a Federal Register notice. The fee amount, effective Aug. 15, covers calendar year 2026; licenses are issued on a calendar year basis.

The Republican-led House Select Committee on China said Aug. 14 that a new trade agreement the Trump administration is negotiating with China should contain or exclude certain provisions to protect U.S. economic and national security.