The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on raw honey from India (A-533-903). The agency preliminarily set a zero percent AD rate for all 14 companies remaining under review. If the agency's findings are continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from these 14 companies entered June 1, 2023, through May 31, 2024, won't be assessed AD. Any changes to rates for these companies' rates would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, due in March.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on glycine from India (A-533-883). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from two producers and exporters that was entered June 1, 2023, through May 31, 2024.
On Nov. 17, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Sponsors of the No Coffee Tax Act lauded the president's decision to roll back reciprocal tariffs on coffee, but Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto, D-Nev., noted that the additional 40% tariffs on Brazilian coffee were unchanged. She said Nov. 17 that Brazil is the top source of American coffee.
The bipartisan group of senators that demanded votes to terminate the emergencies that underlie reciprocal tariffs, Brazil tariffs and Canada tariffs wrote to House Speaker Mike Johnson, urging him to schedule the same votes in his chamber.
A year after the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission recommended that de minimis be terminated, and that normal trading relations with China be terminated, only one of its top 10 recommendations was about the treatment of imports. Its annual report for 2025 recommends that Congress ban the import of energy storage systems that have remote monitoring capabilities, if they are made by Chinese companies or their technology was licensed by Chinese companies. Most utility-scale storage batteries are lithium-ion, and 80% of those batteries are made in China.
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 Nov. 17, 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.
True Pedigree, a software provider specializing in preventing counterfeits and gray market diversions, completed an initial training session with CBP on the AGMA One Device. The company describes AGMA One Device as "an integrated mobile platform donated by the Alliance for Gray Market and Counterfeit Abatement (AGMA) that consolidates members’ brand-verification tools into a single device." The platform will help CBP officers with authenticating the authenticity of AGMA members' products entering the U.S. The training was held at the John F. Kennedy International Airport. The tool, offered free of charge to the government, could be rolled out at additional ports early next year.
CBP is seeking members for the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, after the agency indicated earlier this year that the committee would undertake a new direction aligned with the White House's desire to bolster trade enforcement (see 2509170046). The agency is accepting applications through Dec. 19, according to a Federal Register notice.