The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 3 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):

The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of hexamine from China and India, it said in a fact sheet issued March 3. A CVD rate is set at 420.53% for Chinese exporters, and ranges from 2.32% to 139.55% for Indian exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Commerce is conducting concurrent antidumping duty investigations on the same products from China, Germany, India and Saudi Arabia, with preliminary determinations expected on April 29.

A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping and countervailing duties on certain chassis and subassemblies imported from Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam. 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. The U.S. Chassis Manufacturers Coalition, which consists of the Cheetah Chassis Corporation and Stoughton Trailers, requested the investigation.

On Feb. 28, 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:

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, speaking on the Sunday CBS program "Face the Nation," said March 2 that "the big tariff program," or reciprocal tariffs, will be outlined on April 2. That report is going to show what other countries' tariffs are on specific goods, what non-tariff barriers have been identified, and what kind of currency manipulation, financing interventions or "labor manipulation" distorts international trade.

The House Committee on Homeland Security issued its oversight plan for the year, and only mentioned trade once, when it wrote that it plans to "review the Department’s efforts to better facilitate legitimate trade and travel with updates to trusted traveler programs and expansion of CBP Preclearance locations."

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 28, 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 is seeking public comments on an information collection related to the distribution of funds pursuant to the continued dumping and subsidy offset for affected domestic producers, it said in a Federal Register notice. Comments on the information collection are due by May 5.

CBP created Harmonized System Update 2507 on Feb. 28, containing 678 Automated Broker Interface (ABI) records and 213 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2507 includes several PGA HTS flag updates as well as adjustments required by the verification of the 2025 Harmonized Tariff Schedule.

CBP posted the following documents for the March 5 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting: