CBP adds PGA flag enforcement for Entry Type 13 filings in draft table, July 29, 2026

CBP says it updated the draft PGA Flag Enforcement Table in the Draft Chapters section and added an enforcement flag for Entry Type 13, so the change is in CBP’s filing-enforcement setup rather than in a duty rate or admissibility rule. The bulletin was published on July 29, 2026, and it states no later operative date.

The notice reaches Entry Type 13 filings and nothing else by name. It does not say that the new flag applies to every entry type, to a specific country, or to a commodity program, and it does not identify any duty, quota, or classification change. On this record the only covered filings are ET13 transmissions.

The operative axis is filing type: an Entry Type 13 transmission now sits on the enforcement side of the draft PGA flag table, while the message gives no reason to treat non-ET13 filings as covered. A broker can therefore place its own entries by filing type, but the packet does not reveal the actual validation outcome, error code, or required PGA data element because the table text is not included.

What remains unresolved is the content of the updated table itself and whether CBP intends the draft wording to be enforced immediately or only after a later implementation step. The packet also omits any exception, transition rule, or Chapter 99 cross-reference, so it cannot be used to map the exact screening logic for ET13 beyond the fact that the enforcement flag was added.

Sources

• CSMS # 69379627 - PGA Flag Enforcement Table Updated for Entry Type 13
  CBP / CSMS · Jul 29, 2026

CBP CSMS updates APHIS PIS message-set filings for Tissue Culture and PG30 status I, effective August 27, 2026

CBP's CSMS says APHIS updated its Core Message Implementation Guide and Supplemental Trade Guide for imports destined for Plant Inspection Stations, adding new filing rules for Category Code 406 and PG30 status I. The bulletin says the production deployment date is August 27, 2026, so that is when the new message-set requirements begin to matter for live entries and transmissions.

The change reaches filers of imports destined for a PIS, not every import, and the bulletin says the new laboratory/testing status I is required only for products proceeding to a PIS. It also says filers must report Growing Media qualifier A43 with Category 406, using AGAR or EXAR, and should use physical state A41 where applicable with WIRT or WORT.

The operative line is the filing message sent to ACE: Category 406 now carries the Tissue Culture title, and PG30 may use I as an inspection laboratory/testing status to route data to the correct PIS location. The notice also keeps Port of Arrival A mandatory even when it differs from the anticipated inspection location, so a filing that omits A or uses the new codes incorrectly would not meet the updated message-set rules.

What this packet does not settle is the full text of the updated Appendix PGA, the APHIS Core Message Set Implementation Guide, the Supplemental Trade Guide, and the linked PIS location list, because those documents are referenced but not included here. It therefore leaves the detailed business definitions and routing tables to the missing annexes, even though the CSMS itself makes the production filing change clear.

Sources

• CSMS # 69379587 - APHIS Announces Updates to Plant Inspection Station Message Set Filings and Deployment Dates
  CBP / CSMS · Jul 29, 2026

CBP says ACE may accept CPSC PGA eFilings with missing data, effective July 8, 2026

CBP says ACE will accept CPSC PGA message-set entries even when the filing has no CPSC message set or is missing some CPSC data, so long as the overall CBP and CATAIR PGA message-set specification is followed. The bulletin was published July 29, 2026, and it ties the operational change to CPSC’s full implementation on July 8, 2026.

This reaches entries that carry CPSC certificate of compliance data in ACE and the software developers who build those transmissions. It speaks only to the CPSC filing path, not to other PGA message sets, and it does not say that every cargo entry is covered.

The controlling line is the content of the transmission, not the merchandise classification. If the entry lacks the CPSC message set or is missing some CPSC data, CBP says it will not reject the entry; if developers let users submit CPSC data even when the flagging requirements are unmet, the bulletin says that approach is acceptable. When required eFiling data is absent, CPSC may send an SO message, reject the CPSC data, and perform enforcement.

The packet does not quote the final rule, the guidance, or the underlying CPSC data schema, so it does not settle which specific fields may be omitted and still pass ACE’s entry-level edit. It also leaves open the exact consequence of an SO response beyond possible rejection of the CPSC data, and the precise enforcement path CPSC will choose when required eFiling data is missing.

Sources

• CSMS # 69382435 - Update: Information from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Related to CPSC’s PGA Message Set (eFiling)
  CBP / CSMS · Jul 29, 2026

Commerce final affirmative AD determination on Bulgaria rebar; 53.27% cash deposits upon July 30, 2026 publication, suspension for entries on or after March 13, 2026

Commerce’s final affirmative less-than-fair-value determination for steel concrete reinforcing bar from Bulgaria sets a 53.27 percent weighted-average dumping margin for Promet Steel JSC and, because that rate is not zero, de minimis, or based entirely on facts otherwise available, the same 53.27 percent rate for all other producers and exporters. The notice is applicable July 30, 2026, and on publication Commerce will instruct CBP to continue suspension of liquidation and to require cash deposits at those rates.

The rule reaches steel concrete reinforcing bar imported from Bulgaria in straight length or coil form, regardless of metallurgy, length, diameter, grade, or lack of grade, and it also reaches rebar further processed in the subject country or a third country, including cutting, grinding, galvanizing, painting, coating, or similar processing. Plain rounds, meaning nondeformed or smooth rebar, are expressly excluded, and the listed HTSUS numbers are only for convenience because the written scope controls.

The operative line is the entry or withdrawal-for-consumption date. Commerce will continue suspension of liquidation for all subject entries entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after March 13, 2026, while entries before that date are outside this suspension instruction. For cash deposits after publication, the respondent rate is 53.27 percent, the producer-specific rate applies when the exporter is not the respondent but the producer is, and all other producer-exporter combinations also face 53.27 percent.

What remains open is the U.S. International Trade Commission’s final injury determination, which Commerce says is due no later than September 13, 2026, 45 days after this final determination. If the ITC finds no material injury or threat, the proceeding ends and cash deposits are refunded or canceled with suspension lifted; if it finds injury, Commerce will issue an antidumping duty order and further CBP assessment instructions.

Sources

• Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Bulgaria: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
  Federal Register · Jul 30, 2026

Commerce final LTFV determination on Egypt rebar sets 34.20% cash-deposit rates for entries on or after March 13, 2026

Commerce’s final affirmative less-than-fair-value determination for steel concrete reinforcing bar from Egypt became applicable on July 30, 2026, and it directs CBP to continue suspending liquidation of covered entries while requiring cash deposits at the listed margins. The named company rate is 34.20 percent for the Ezz Group, 52.73 percent for El Marakby Steel and Suez Steel, and 34.20 percent for all other producers and exporters.

The scope reaches straight-length or coil rebar from Egypt regardless of metallurgy, length, diameter, or grade, and it also reaches rebar further processed in Egypt or a third country by cutting, grinding, galvanizing, painting, coating, or similar processing. It excludes plain rounds, and the notice says the covered merchandise is primarily classifiable under 7213.10.0000, 7214.20.0000, and 7228.30.8010, while also listing 7221.00.0017, 7221.00.0018, 7221.00.0030, 7221.00.0045, 7222.11.0001, 7222.11.0057, 7222.11.0059, 7222.30.0001, 7227.20.0080, 7227.90.6030, 7227.90.6035, 7227.90.6040, 7228.20.1000, and 7228.60.6000 as additional HTSUS numbers that may be used for entry.

The operative line is the entry or withdrawal date: subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after March 13, 2026 falls under the suspension and cash-deposit instructions, while earlier entries are outside this notice. If the exporter is not one of the named respondents but the producer is, CBP uses the producer’s rate; if neither is named, CBP uses the all-others rate, and a negative ITC injury determination would terminate the proceeding and refund deposits.

What the notice does not yet settle is the ITC’s final injury determination, which Commerce says is due no later than 45 days after this final determination and which will decide whether an antidumping duty order follows. The notice also says Commerce will disclose its calculations within five days of publication, but that disclosure step does not itself change entry treatment.

Sources

• Federal Register: Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Egypt: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
  Federal Register · Jul 30, 2026

Commerce final Vietnam rebar determination sets 128.53% and 136.57% cash-deposit instructions effective July 30, 2026

Commerce made a final affirmative less-than-fair-value determination for steel concrete reinforcing bar from Vietnam and said the notice is applicable July 30, 2026. It continues CBP suspension of liquidation for subject entries and ties cash-deposit instructions to the producer/exporter combination, with a 128.53% weighted-average dumping margin for the Hoa Phat single entity and 136.57% for the Vietnam-wide entity; the notice also lists 123.49% and 131.53% as subsidy-offset-adjusted figures, but says CBP is not being instructed to collect on that adjusted basis at this time because the companion CVD provisional measures have ended.

The reach is the rebar scope in Appendix I: steel concrete reinforcing bar from Vietnam, in straight length or coil form, regardless of metallurgy, length, diameter, or grade, and still covered if further processed in a subject country or a third country by cutting, grinding, galvanizing, painting, coating, or similar work. Plain rounds are excluded, and the HTSUS numbers listed are for convenience and customs purposes only because the written description controls, so an entry under one of the listed tariff lines is not enough if the merchandise is not actually subject rebar.

The operative customs line is date of entry or withdrawal for consumption: CBP is to continue suspension for subject merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after March 13, 2026, and entries before that date are outside this notice’s suspension instruction. On the rate side, the Hoa Phat single entity receives a 128.53% margin, the Vietnam-wide entity receives 136.57%, and third-country exporters take the rate of the Vietnamese producer/exporter that supplied them, or the Vietnam-wide rate if that supplier has no own rate.

This notice does not itself settle the injury question or issue the antidumping duty order; the ITC still has to make its final determination within 45 days of the July 27, 2026 final determination, which lands on September 10, 2026, and if the ITC is negative the proceeding ends and deposits are refunded. The notice also says Commerce will disclose calculations within five days of publication, by August 4, 2026, and only if the ITC is affirmative will the cash-deposit rate be revised to include export-subsidy offsets on the ITC publication date.

Sources

• Federal Register: Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value
  Federal Register · Jul 30, 2026

Commerce finalizes 6.80% Vietnam rebar countervailing duty rates; ITC injury decision due in 45 days

Commerce's final affirmative countervailing duty determination sets the estimated net subsidy rate at 6.80 percent ad valorem for Hoa Phat Group Joint Stock Company and 6.80 percent for all others, and the notice says it is applicable July 30, 2026. The same notice says Commerce will disclose its calculations within five days of publication and, if the ITC later finds injury, will issue a CVD order, reinstate suspension of liquidation, and require cash deposits at those rates.

The covered merchandise is steel concrete reinforcing bar imported in straight length or coil form from Vietnam, including rebar that has been further processed in the subject countries or a third country by cutting, grinding, galvanizing, painting, coating, or similar processing. Plain rounds are excluded, and the scope text says the written description controls over the tariff numbers it lists, which are primarily 7213.10.0000, 7214.20.0000, and 7228.30.8010, with other listed HTSUS numbers also possible at entry.

For entries, the decisive axis is country of origin plus the entry-withdrawal date: the notice ties any eventual assessment to subject merchandise entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after the suspension's effective date, while also saying provisional suspension continued only for entries on or before May 12, 2026 and stopped for entries on or after May 13, 2026. That means a covered Vietnam rebar entry that fell on or before May 12 stayed inside the suspended pool, but a later entry was outside provisional suspension until a future order, if one issues.

What remains unresolved is the ITC's injury or threat-of-injury determination, which Commerce says will issue within 45 days and which decides whether the announced rates mature into an actual CVD order and cash-deposit requirement. The packet also references the Issues and Decision Memorandum rather than reproducing it, so the detailed program-by-program reasoning behind the 6.80 percent rate is not available here.

Sources

• Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination
  Federal Register · Jul 30, 2026

Commerce finalizes antidumping rates for HFC blend entries from China, with cash deposits effective July 30, 2026

Commerce's final results for the 2023-2024 antidumping review of HFC blends from China became applicable on July 30, 2026. The notice assigns Sanmei a 182.61 percent weighted-average dumping margin, confirms Zhejiang Yonghe's no-shipments finding, and makes the cash-deposit rules effective for consumption entries entered or withdrawn on or after that publication date.

The order reaches HFC blends from China, but the full scope is only described in the incorporated Issues and Decision Memorandum, so the packet does not print the complete product definition. It also keeps separately reviewed exporters on their existing separate rates, sends Chinese exporters without separate rates to the China-wide entity rate of 216.37 percent, and uses the supplying Chinese exporter's rate for non-China exporters that lack their own rate.

The operative line is respondent status at entry: Sanmei entries entered or withdrawn for consumption on or after July 30, 2026 use the 182.61 percent cash-deposit rate, while Chinese exporters without separate rates stay at 216.37 percent and previously reviewed exporters with separate rates keep their last segment's rate. For Zhejiang Yonghe, any suspended entries under its CBP case number are liquidated at the China-wide assessment rate, and Commerce says unreported Sanmei entries are also liquidated at 216.37 percent. Importers must still file the reimbursement certificate before liquidation, because failure lets Commerce presume reimbursement and increase the antidumping duty assessed.

What this packet does not settle is the exact scope text in the incorporated Issues and Decision Memorandum, so any borderline product classification still depends on a document that is referenced but not reproduced here. Outside that missing scope text, the notice forecloses rate uncertainty by fixing the 182.61 percent Sanmei rate, the 216.37 percent China-wide rate, and the existing-rate treatment for separately rated exporters.

Sources

• Hydrofluorocarbon Blends From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and Final Determination of No Shipments; 2023-2024
  Federal Register · Jul 30, 2026

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Commerce finalizes 2023 countervailing duty rates on ripe olives from Spain; cash deposits apply July 30, 2026

Commerce's final results for the 2023 countervailing duty review on ripe olives from Spain set specific ad valorem subsidy rates at 4.80 percent for Agro Sevilla Aceitunas S.Coop.And. and 25.21 percent for Angel Camacho Alimentacion, S.L. and its cross-owned affiliates, and Commerce says CBP is to collect cash deposits at those rates for covered merchandise entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after July 30, 2026.

The reach is shipments of subject merchandise covered by the order, meaning ripe olives from Spain, and it extends to the named reviewed firms plus non-reviewed firms subject to the order; the notice also preserves the last company-specific rate or the all-others rate of 11.08 percent for those non-reviewed firms. It does not change the treatment of goods outside the order, and the complete scope text sits in the Issues and Decision Memorandum rather than in this notice.

The operative axis is the entry or withdrawal date for consumption. Entries on or after July 30, 2026, pick up the new cash deposit rates, while entries before that date do not; in addition, Commerce says it will issue assessment instructions no earlier than 35 days after publication, and if a timely summons is filed at the Court of International Trade, CBP is told not to liquidate the affected entries until the 90-day period for requesting a statutory injunction has run.

What the sources leave open is the detailed scope and calculation work that Commerce relegates to the Issues and Decision Memorandum, including the denominator changes, adverse facts available application, and program-by-program countervailability findings that produced the final rates. The notice resolves the rates and the cash-deposit/assessment posture, but it does not reproduce the full scope language or the underlying calculations needed to test marginal cases.

Sources

• Ripe Olives From Spain: Final Results of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2023
  Federal Register · Jul 30, 2026

Commerce preliminarily sets Korea large diameter welded pipe AD review margins, rescinds 15 companies, and sets hearing deadline for July 30, 2026

Commerce’s July 30, 2026 preliminary results in the Korea large-diameter welded pipe antidumping administrative review find Hyundai Steel Pipe and SeAH at 0.00 percent, assign 0.80 percent to companies not selected for individual review, and preliminarily rescind the review for 15 companies with no reviewable suspended entries. The notice is applicable July 30, 2026, but it is still preliminary, so the cash-deposit consequence it describes will not become the operative deposit rule until final results issue.

The review reaches subject welded pipe from the Republic of Korea for the May 1, 2024 through April 30, 2025 period of review, and the partial rescission reaches only the 15 companies listed in Appendix II because Commerce found no suspended entries for them during that period. The 0.80 percent review-specific rate is limited to the Appendix III companies not selected for individual examination, while the zero margins apply only to HSP and SeAH in this preliminary segment.

The concrete filing consequence is the rights-preserving schedule: case briefs or other written comments are due seven days after the last verification report issues, rebuttal briefs are due five days after case briefs, and any hearing request must be filed through ACCESS within 30 days after publication, which is August 29, 2026. All briefs must be received successfully in ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, so the notice creates a hard transmission cutoff rather than a mailing grace period.

What the packet leaves unresolved is the date Commerce will issue the final results, which is what will settle the final assessment and cash-deposit consequences, and it also omits the full Preliminary Decision Memorandum and appendix texts that would supply the complete scope and company lists. The notice says rescission instructions to CBP will issue no earlier than 35 days after publication, and if a timely summons is filed at the CIT, liquidation is held only until the statutory-injunction window expires, which the notice states is 90 days from publication.

Sources

• Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
  Federal Register · Jul 30, 2026

Commerce preliminarily imposes 103.49% CVD deposits on large diameter graphite electrodes from China, effective July 30, 2026

Commerce preliminarily finds countervailable subsidies on large diameter graphite electrodes from China and, beginning July 30, 2026, instructs CBP to suspend liquidation of subject entries and collect cash deposits at the company-specific or all-others rate. The notice sets 103.49 percent ad valorem for Dantan New Materials Co., Ltd., Shanxi Juxian Graphite New Material Co., Ltd., and all others, so this is a live entry-cost change rather than a procedural notice.

The scope reaches large diameter graphite electrodes of any length, whether finished or unfinished, used in furnaces with a nominal or actual diameter above 425 millimeters, and it also reaches graphite pin joining systems with a minimum diameter of 228.6 millimeters when they are attached, sold with, or sold separately from the electrodes. Origin is keyed to the country of graphitization, and the notice excludes merchandise already subject to the existing small-diameter graphite electrode antidumping order, plus the identified TES graphite blocks, anchors, and pins meeting the listed coefficient, density, and dimension limits.

The operative axis for entries is the entry or withdrawal date and, for deposit rates, the producer/exporter pairing. Entries entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after July 30, 2026, are subject to suspension, and the cash deposit follows the company-specific rate when one exists; if both producer and exporter have rates and they differ, CBP uses the higher one, while all other producers and exporters pay 103.49 percent. That means shipments of covered goods cleared before July 30 do not pick up this preliminary order, but shipments on or after that date do.

Non-scope case briefs or other written comments are due 30 days after publication, which falls on August 29, 2026, and rebuttal briefs are due five days after the case-brief deadline, which falls on September 3, 2026. A hearing request is also due within 30 days after publication, so August 29, 2026 is the preserve-your-rights date for parties seeking an oral hearing, while the separate scope brief deadlines are said to live in the Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum rather than in the notice itself.

This packet does not settle the final countervailing duty determination, the companion ITC injury decision, or the exact scope-brief schedule because those steps remain future or are cross-referenced to a memorandum whose text is not included. It also leaves the merit question open beyond the preliminary finding; the only immediate customs consequence is suspension of liquidation and the stated deposit regime for covered entries.

Sources

• Large Diameter Graphite Electrodes From the People's Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination, and Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty Determination
  Federal Register · Jul 30, 2026

Commerce preliminary CVD on large diameter graphite electrodes from India starts liquidation suspension and cash deposits July 30, 2026

Commerce's July 30, 2026 preliminary countervailing duty determination for large diameter graphite electrodes from India finds countervailable subsidies under section 703(b) and begins operating that day. It directs CBP to suspend liquidation for subject entries entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after that date and to collect cash deposits at 3.68% for Graphite India Limited, 6.99% for HEG Limited, 5.87% for all others, or the higher company-specific rate when producer and exporter rates differ.

The scope covers large graphite electrodes from India, including finished or unfinished electrodes of any length with a nominal or actual diameter above 425 millimeters and the associated graphite pin joining systems above 228.6 millimeters, whether attached, sold with, or sold separately from the electrodes. The notice says country of origin turns on graphitization, and it treats HTSUS 8545.11.0020, 3801.10.5090, and 3801.90.0050 as convenience numbers only because the written description is dispositive.

The rule turns on two concrete axes: scope coverage and entry date. Goods that match this scope and are not covered by the Small Diameter Graphite Electrodes from China antidumping order fall under this CVD, while goods covered by that China order control under that order instead; entries or warehouse withdrawals for consumption before July 30, 2026 avoid this suspension, and those on or after that date do not. Any party seeking a hearing must file the request within 30 days after publication, which makes the deadline August 29, 2026, and the request must identify the party, participants, foreign-national status, and issues to be discussed.

What these sources do not settle is the separate scope-brief schedule, because the notice points to the Preliminary Scope Decision Memorandum for those deadlines but its text is not in the packet. They also leave the merits provisional: Commerce says it intends to verify the information for the final determination, may amend the preliminary decision for timely ministerial-error allegations, and has only scheduled the aligned final determination for no later than December 7, 2026 unless postponed.

Sources

• Large Diameter Graphite Electrodes From India: Preliminary Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination and Alignment of Final Determination With Final Antidumping Duty Determination
  Federal Register · Jul 30, 2026

Also published

• CSMS # 69379504 - Update to ACE CATAIR Stand-alone Filing for Prior Notice Data (PE/PX) Document Updated for Entry Type 13
  CBP / CSMS · Jul 29, 2026
• Steel Concrete Reinforcing Bar From Egypt: Final Affirmative Countervailing Duty Determination
  Federal Register · Jul 30, 2026

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