Tag: Commerce Department
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Commerce buys twenty more days to decide whether the U.S. corrugated industry really stands behind petitions that could put triple-digit duties on imported pizza boxes WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2026 The U.S. Department of Commerce has given itself an extra twenty days to decide whether to launch antidumping and countervailing duty investigations into corrugated die-cut cardboard…
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Commerce opens a circumvention inquiry into Chinese aluminum composite panels, asking whether a thin plastic core is enough to escape duties that have stood since 2019 WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2026 The U.S. Department of Commerce has opened a circumvention inquiry into aluminum composite panels produced in China, a step that could pull a widely used…
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Commerce and Customs have capped polysilicon and solar component imports through Dec. 4 to stop buyers from front-running the Section 232 tariff and minimum import price regime, with new importers limited to 12 kilograms of polysilicon a week and brokers warned they could lose their licenses. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2026. Federal trade officials have moved…
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Commerce sets a 66.61 percent preliminary countervailing duty on Chinese tin mill steel, finds critical circumstances, and orders retroactive cash deposits as the second trade case over tinplate in three years reaches a decisive stage WASHINGTON, September 15, 2026. The United States Department of Commerce on Monday imposed a preliminary countervailing duty of 66.61 percent…
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Commerce formally opens antidumping investigations of linear hydraulic cylinders from five countries, with alleged dumping margins reaching 744.85 percent, after an unusual industry polling exercise and warnings about an unusually aggressive scope WASHINGTON, September 15, 2026. The United States Department of Commerce has formally launched one of the broadest trade remedy actions of the year,…
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Two weeks before Section 232 duties of up to 100 percent hit imported unmanned aircraft, small U.S. operators are pulling five-figure purchases forward and Commerce has yet to publish the classification guidance importers need WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2026 With 13 days left before the first tranche of Section 232 tariffs on unmanned aircraft systems takes…
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Commerce and the International Trade Commission published more than fifteen antidumping, countervailing duty and Section 337 actions in three days, touching Chinese aluminum extrusions, Malaysian mattresses, Spanish olives, Indian fluoropolymers and Turkish stainless pipe. The traditional trade remedy system is running at full capacity beneath the headline tariffs. WASHINGTON, Aug. 13, 2026 While Washington’s attention…
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Commerce proposes Section 232 duties on 14 more steel, aluminum and copper derivative categories, from brass instruments and floor safes to tanker trailers, with comments due August 27 WASHINGTON, August 8, 2026 The United States Department of Commerce is proposing to extend Section 232 duties to 14 additional categories of steel, aluminum and copper derivative…
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A temporary Commerce Department rule issued under Defense Production Act authority orders United States sellers of battery black mass and tungsten scrap to route all monthly sales to domestic buyers from August 27 By the Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, August 7, 2026. The Commerce Department has closed the export door on two recovered…
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Commerce proposes Section 232 duties on 14 more metal derivative articles, from aluminum powder and brass instruments to tanker trailers and filled steel cylinders, with public comments due August 27 By the Trade Desk, Peacock Tariff Consulting WASHINGTON, August 7, 2026. The Commerce Department has proposed extending Section 232 metals tariffs to 14 additional categories…