The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in an automatic five-year sunset review scheduled to begin in April it will consider revoking the countervailing duty order on chlorinated isocyanurates from China (C-570-991). This order will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to countervailable subsidization and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on wooden cabinets and vanities from China (A-570-106/C-570-107), as well as the AD order on small diameter graphite electrodes from China (A-570-929) and the suspended AD/CVD investigations on sugar from Mexico (A-201-845/C-201-846), Commerce said in a notice March 3.
The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by March 31 for producers and exporters subject to 35 antidumping duty orders, 21 countervailing duty orders and two suspended AD/CVD investigations with March anniversary dates.
On March 3, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
President Donald Trump posted on social media on March 3, "To the Great Farmers of the United States: Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United States. Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. Have fun!"
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 March 3, 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.
Of the 4,437 shipments that CBP has flagged for potential violations of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act since the start of the federal government's 2025 fiscal year in October, nearly 88% of those shipments are from the automotive and aerospace industries, according to CBP data released in mid-February. The data reflects volumes between Oct. 1, 2024 and Jan. 31, 2025.
CBP is implementing a new Chapter 99 harmonized tariff schedule number to implement an increase in duties from 10% to 20% on imported products from China and Hong Kong that went into effect just after midnight on March 4 (see 2503030007).
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