# 2025-10158: Commerce Considers Tweaks to Reseller Rates and Trade Reviews

2025-10158, Determining and Applying Unaffiliated Reseller Assessment Rates; Modification or Removal of Countervailing Duty Expedited Reviews, is a Federal Register proposed rule from Commerce Department, International Trade Administration published 2025-06-04, effective Comments must be received no later than July 7, 2025.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-28).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-10158
- As of: 2026-10-28
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-10158
- Title: Determining and Applying Unaffiliated Reseller Assessment Rates; Modification or Removal of Countervailing Duty Expedited Reviews
- Type: Proposed Rule
- Agencies: Commerce Department; International Trade Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 23649
- Published: 2025-06-04
- Effective: Comments must be received no later than July 7, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: 0625-AB27
- Last updated: 2026-10-28

## In one line

Commerce Considers Tweaks to Reseller Rates and Trade Reviews

## 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!

## Abstract

Enforcement and Compliance (E&C), part of the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce), administers the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) trade remedy laws of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act). Commerce is seeking public comment as it considers revising, and potentially codifying in its regulations, its current policy of assessing entries of subject merchandise exported by unaffiliated resellers at the all-others rate determined in a less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigation rather than at the rate calculated for an examined producer of that merchandise in an administrative review. In addition, Commerce is considering modifying or removing regulations providing for the conduct of an expedited administrative review following the conclusion of a CVD investigation.

## Effects PRIA read

- Higher Duty Rate Possible for Resellers: cost, medium. 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-rev…
- Expedited CVD Reviews Could Be Removed or Tightened: cost, medium. 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. C…

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## Sources
- [2025-10158 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/04/2025-10158/determining-and-applying-unaffiliated-reseller-assessment-rates-modification-or-removal-of)
- [2025-10158 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-04/pdf/2025-10158.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-10158 (as of 2026-10-28).