The Commerce Department is revoking antidumping duties on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) sheet from South Korea (A-580-903) after no domestic producers sought to participate in five-year sunset reviews conducted by the agency, it said in a notice to be published Jan. 12. Effective for entries on or after Sept. 10, 2025, Commerce will direct CBP to end suspension of liquidation and collection of AD cash deposits in connection with the now defunct AD orders, which had been in place since 2020. Entries before Sept. 10, 2025, will remain subject to suspension of liquidation and AD cash deposit requirements and assessments, Commerce said.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is busy finalizing its list of what products will need an electronic certificate for import entry, according to CPSC staff participating on a Jan. 8 webinar on e-filing.
On Jan. 8, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
As the FDA seeks to fully implement its 2022 food traceability regulations by July 2028, the agency still needs to establish timelines for some of its ether Food Safety Modernization Act regulatory requirements to ensure the agency meets its deadlines, according to a Government Accountability Office report released this week. Activities that the FDA still needs to pursue include issuing guidance to protect against the intentional adulteration of food and establishing a system to improve the FDA's capacity to track and trace food that is in the U.S.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Jan. 9:
The Bureau of Industry and Security has withdrawn an interim final rule from interagency review that was expected to set new import restrictions over certain Chinese-made drones and their components. BIS sent the rule for review in October and withdrew it Jan. 8, according to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. A BIS spokesperson didn't respond to a request for comment.
The Committee to Support US Trade Laws said that while it supports the Commerce Department appropriations bill that advanced in the House of Representatives this week, it "is disappointed by the decrease in funding of the International Trade Administration’s (ITA) budget from last year to $562 million in direct appropriations."
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, on the All-In podcast episode hosted by a Canadian-American venture capital billionaire, said India has not gotten a trade deal because the U.S. no longer wanted to offer the terms they'd agreed to when India's prime minister didn't call President Donald Trump within a three-week window.
The U.S. opened a customs penalty suit on Jan. 8 against importers Skyline International and Skyline Brands, along with their owner Zainulabedin Subhani, alleging that the three defendants undervalued their entries of household merchandise. The government is seeking a penalty totaling over $3.4 million for the defendants' alleged fraud along with a judgment of over $447,000, which represents the duties avoided by the defendants (United States v. Skyline International, CIT # 26-00295).
After it didn’t issue its much-anticipated decision on the fate of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act on Jan. 9, the Supreme Court said on its website that it may announce more opinions on Jan. 14.