The EU announced Aug. 28 that it had proposed a return to duty-free treatment for American lobster exports, and added processed lobster to that category, and to eliminate tariffs on American industrial goods and to provide preferential access for other U.S. seafood and what the EU called "non-sensitive agricultural goods."
CBP is ready to process the low-value packages that used to qualify for de minimis, officials said Aug. 28, hours before the change comes into effect.
CBP released a Federal Register notice late on Aug. 28 outlining procedures and requirements for the end of the de minimis exemption at 12:01 ET Aug. 29. Among other things, the notice says the executive order ending de minimis for all countries supersedes the relevant provisions of the earlier executive order that ended de minimis for China, meaning that postal shipments from China entered on or after Aug. 29 will be subject to the same flat-rate duties for postal shipments as all other countries.
The International Trade Commission began a Section 337 investigation on allegations that Dorel Industries of Canada and two Chinese companies are importing and selling child car seats that infringe patents held by Wonderland Switzerland AG, Iron Mountains LLC, Nuna Baby Essentials, Joie Children’s Products and Graco Children’s Products (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1459), it said in a notice to be published Aug. 28.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 27 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 last week published its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anti-circumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope rulings for the period April 1, 2025, through June 30, 2025:
The Commerce Department is issuing antidumping and countervailing duty orders on tungsten shot from China (A-570-178/C-570-179). The orders, published Aug. 27, set permanent antidumping and countervailing duties, which will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce in a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD/CVD on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
The Commerce Department has set new antidumping duty cash deposit requirements for imports of polypropylene corrugated boxes from China (A-570-207), after finding sales at less than fair value by Chinese producers in the preliminary determination of its AD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take effect for entries on or after Aug. 28.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on thermal paper from Germany (A-428-850). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers of subject merchandise entered between Nov. 1, 2022, and Oct. 31, 2023.
On Aug. 26, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: