The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Aug. 27:

The Bureau of Industry and Security is extending a public comment period for an information collection involving Section 232 investigation requests. BIS said that, after receiving a request, it investigates the “effects of imports of specific commodities” on U.S. national security, including by distributing surveys, and may provide those findings to the president for possible adjustments to import tariffs. The collection helps BIS “account for the public burden associated with the surveys distributed to determine the impact on national security.” The agency had requested public comments in April and is now allowing for another 30 days of comments.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin, D-Md., the committee's ranking member, Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and the chairman and ranking member of its Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere said they are "deeply concerned that the proposed judicial reforms in Mexico would undermine the independence and transparency of the country’s judiciary," which would jeopardize U.S. and Mexican economic interests. The Mexican president wants to pass judicial reform, which would have judges elected in the future.

American drone maker Anzu Robotics produces DJI drones, not its own designs, allege the leaders of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.

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 Aug. 26, 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 recently issued a final affirmative evasion finding in its Enforce and Protect Act investigation on New Orleans-based Musa Stone Import's and King’s Marble & Granite's alleged evasion of antidumping and countervailing duties stemming from transshipping Chinese-origin quartz surface products through Thailand and the Philippines.

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Sayari analysts, who say their company crunches 600 million shipment records, say that the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act has had more impact than British, German, Swiss, Canadian and French laws aimed at removing human rights abuses from supply chains.

Shein audits in 2023 uncovered two contract manufacturers that were hiring children 15 years old or younger in China, the company reported, and the companies let those workers go, paid their outstanding wages, and facilitated a return to their parents or legal guardians. "SHEIN also ensured the contract manufacturers strengthened their processes for screening new hires, such as checking and maintaining records of all employees’ IDs. Following appropriate remediation, the contract manufacturers were permitted to resume business," the report said.