Importers: alphabetize your duty review requests now.
Published Date: 10/2/2026
Notice
Summary
If you're involved in importing goods under antidumping or countervailing duty orders, now’s your chance to ask the U.S. Department of Commerce to review those orders during their anniversary month. You’ll need to follow new rules on how to submit your review requests, including listing companies alphabetically if you’re asking for multiple reviews. Keep an eye on deadlines and data releases—missing them could mean losing your chance to be heard or affecting money matters.
Analyzed Economic Effects
7 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.
No Request Means Assessment at Cash-Deposit Rate
If Commerce does not receive a request for review of entries covered by an order, finding, or suspended investigation listed in this notice by the last day of October 2026, Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess antidumping or countervailing duties on those entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit of estimated duties required at the time of entry (and continue to collect that cash deposit).
Last-Day-of-October Review Deadline
If you are an interested party (importer, exporter, producer, or their representative) and want Commerce to conduct an administrative review of any listed antidumping (AD) or countervailing duty (CVD) order, you must file a written request so it is received no later than the last day of October 2026 (or the next business day if that day is a weekend or holiday). The notice lists specific orders and periods that are subject to these October 2026 requests.
CBP Data Release and Fast Respondent Selection Timeline
If Commerce limits the number of respondents in an administrative review, it intends to select respondents using CBP import data for the period of review and will release that CBP data under administrative protective order (APO) to parties with an APO within five days of the initiation notice publication. Commerce intends to decide respondent selection within 35 days of the initiation notice and invites comments on respondent selection within five days after the CBP data are placed on the record.
Particular Market Situation (PMS) Submission Deadline
If you want Commerce to consider a particular market situation (PMS) under section 773(e) of the Tariff Act, you must submit the PMS allegation and supporting factual information no later than 20 days after submission of initial Section D responses in the review.
Nonmarket-Economy (NME) Entity Review Rule
Commerce no longer treats the nonmarket-economy (NME) entity as automatically subject to an AD administrative review; the NME entity will not be under review unless Commerce specifically receives a request for, or self-initiates, a review of the NME entity. If no review of the NME entity is requested but an individual exporter does not qualify for a separate rate, Commerce will treat that exporter as part of the NME entity and will not change the NME entity rate because the NME entity was not under review.
Annual Inquiry Service List Update Window
Commerce will update annual inquiry service lists for the listed proceedings and gives interested parties 30 days after the date of this notice to submit new or amended entries of appearance; Commerce will finalize the lists five business days after that 30-day window. Petitioners and foreign governments who filed once will be automatically kept on the list in future years.
90-Day Withdrawal Window for Review Requests
If you request an administrative review, you may withdraw that request within 90 days of the date of publication of the notice of initiation of the requested review (Commerce may extend this 90-day period on a case-by-case basis).
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