Commerce Considers Tweaks to Reseller Rates and Trade Reviews
Published Date: 6/4/2025
Proposed Rule
Summary
The Department of Commerce wants your thoughts on changing how it charges fees on goods sold by independent resellers and might scrap quick reviews after certain trade investigations. These changes could affect businesses involved in importing goods under antidumping and countervailing duty rules, possibly changing how much they pay and how fast reviews happen. Speak up by July 7, 2025, to help shape these important trade rules!
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Higher Duty Rate Possible for Resellers
Commerce is considering changing how it assesses antidumping duties on goods exported to the U.S. by unaffiliated resellers. Instead of always using the investigation "all-others" rate, Commerce may require Customs to liquidate those entries at the higher of either the producer's administrative-review rate or the all-others rate. Commerce is also considering codifying this unaffiliated reseller policy into 19 CFR 351.212.
Expedited CVD Reviews Could Be Removed or Tightened
Commerce is considering removing, keeping, or changing the expedited countervailing duty (CVD) review process in 19 CFR 351.214(l). Possible changes Commerce asked about include making expedited reviews discretionary or requiring that all requests include complete initial questionnaire responses. Commerce says expedited reviews take a lot of agency time and only a small number have been conducted.
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