The Commerce Department began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with August anniversary dates. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications on or about Oct. 9 to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.
Suspension of liquidation and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements take effect Sept. 26 for imports of silicon metal from Australia (C-602-814), Laos (C-553-002), Norway (C-403-807) and Thailand (C-549-856), after the Commerce Department found countervailable subsidization in preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations.
On Sept. 24, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Reps. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., and Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and 23 other lawmakers from around the country asked U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to work with Japan and Vietnam on getting them to lower tariffs on and with South Korea on getting it to approve fresh blueberry exports from states other than Oregon.
Rep. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., said her home territory, along with Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands, are facing shipping problems due to the end of de minimis, even though the Virgin Islands and those other territories aren't part of the Customs Zone.
President Donald Trump said he and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would talk about changing Turkey's tariff treatment in their meeting Sept. 25, but after the two-hour meeting ended, there was no announcement on adjusting the scope of Turkey's 15% reciprocal tariffs, or Section 232 tariffs on steel.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 24, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
CBP has released its Sept. 24 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 39), which includes the following ruling action:
Recent entry filers that want to take advantage of new, retroactive tariff exemptions for some products from the EU (see 2509240038) should correct their entries "as soon as possible" and no later than 10 days of the cargo's "release from CBP custody and prior to estimated duties being deposited to avoid needing refunds," CBP said in a CSMS message on the EU tariff changes.