Korean welded pipe review sets preliminary CVD rates and rescinds review for 16 companies

Preliminary countervailing subsidy rates are 1.00 percent for Hyundai Steel Pipe Co., Ltd., 0.27 percent and de minimis for SeAH Steel Corporation, and 1.00 percent for the nine non-selected companies receiving a review-specific rate. Commerce also rescinded the review for 16 companies: five after withdrawal of review requests and 11 because they had no reviewable suspended entries. These are preliminary results, so the stated rates do not yet establish the final assessment or cash-deposit amounts.

The scope line is Korean large diameter welded pipe covered by the existing order, but the notice says the complete scope is in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum. Husteel entries are included only when Husteel was not both producer and exporter; Hyundai Steel entries are included only when Hyundai Steel was not both producer and exporter, and Hyundai Steel-produced merchandise exported by Hyundai Corporation is excluded. A hearing request must be filed through ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on September 3, 2026, and case briefs and rebuttal briefs follow the verification-report schedule stated in the notice.

The preliminary results also state that Commerce intends to issue rescission assessment instructions to CBP no earlier than September 8, 2026. For HSP, SeAH Steel, and the non-selected companies, assessment instructions are instead tied to the final results, and cash-deposit instructions for subject merchandise are tied to publication of those final results. Commerce intends to issue the final results within 120 days after publication of these preliminary results, which is December 2, 2026 unless extended; the final rates, final-publication date, and verification-report date remain unresolved in this notice.

Sources

• Large Diameter Welded Pipe From the Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2024
  Federal Register · Aug 4, 2026

AD/CVD review requests due August 31; annual inquiry entries due within 30 days

Administrative review requests for the listed antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings must be filed no later than August 31, 2026. If Commerce receives no request for a listed order and period by that date, it will instruct CBP to assess the covered entries at the cash-deposit rate required when the goods entered or were withdrawn from warehouse for consumption and to continue collecting the previously ordered cash deposit. Requests covering multiple companies should include a separate, alphabetized, single-column appendix, with previously collapsed or cross-owned groups listed together as specified in the notice.

The review-request deadline reaches interested parties seeking review of producers or exporters covered by the listed orders, findings, or suspended investigations and applies to the periods identified for each proceeding. A request must identify the producers or exporters, address the required information for certain domestic parties, be filed electronically in ACCESS, and be served on the petitioner and each specified exporter or producer. The notice also states that the first review has no assessment for entries during an applicable provisional-measures gap period, while an NME entity is not under review unless specifically requested or self-initiated; entries of exporters not named in the initiation notice will be liquidated as described in the notice.

New or amended entries of appearance for the annual inquiry service lists must be submitted within 30 days after publication, which is September 3, 2026, and Commerce will finalize those lists five business days later. New interested parties must submit a new entry of appearance, while parties on the preceding list must submit an amended entry; petitioners and foreign governments are automatically included after their initial request but must still amend information when needed. Interested parties considering a particular market situation allegation must submit it and supporting new factual information no later than 20 days after initial Section D responses.

Sources

• Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity To Request Administrative Review and Join Annual Inquiry Service List; Note Regarding Format of Review Requests
  Federal Register · Aug 4, 2026

Mexico van-type trailers face preliminary AD cash deposits up to 79.92%

Cash deposits and suspension of liquidation now apply to covered van-type trailers and subassemblies from Mexico entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after August 4, 2026. Commerce's preliminary affirmative antidumping determination sets adjusted cash deposit rates of 8.35% for Hyundai de Mexico S.A. de C.V., 2.43% for Utility Trailer Manufacturing de México, S. de R.L. de C.V., 79.92% for five named non-responsive companies, and 7.10% for all other producers and exporters. The instructions remain in effect until further notice, and the 79.92% rates are based on facts available with adverse inferences.

The scope reaches finished or unfinished, assembled or unassembled van-type trailers from Mexico with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 26,000 pounds, and listed subassemblies entered alone or with other subassemblies. It also reaches specified components entered on the same bill of lading as covered trailers or subassemblies, while subassemblies covered by the cited China chassis orders are excluded. For cash deposits, an identified respondent receives its company-specific rate; an unlisted exporter paired with an identified producer receives the producer's rate; and other producer-exporter combinations receive 7.10%. The written scope description, rather than the listed tariff classifications, controls coverage.

Commerce postponed the final determination and extended provisional measures from four months to a period not greater than six months after a qualifying postponement request by Hyundai de Mexico. Commerce must issue the final determination no later than 135 days after publication of the preliminary determination, and a party seeking a hearing must submit its written request within 30 days after publication. The final scope decision is still intended to accompany the final determinations, so the notice does not finally resolve every scope question for a particular product.

Sources

• Van-Type Trailers and Subassemblies Thereof From Mexico: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures
  Federal Register · Aug 4, 2026

Canadian van-type trailers face preliminary 4.29% dumping deposits and 44.86% AFA rates

A 4.29% preliminary antidumping cash-deposit rate applies to Manac, Di-Mond, Innovative Trailer Design, Morgan Canada, and all other producers and exporters of covered Canadian van-type trailers; Collins Manufacturing and GINCOR Werx receive 44.86% rates based on adverse facts available. Commerce directs CBP to suspend liquidation and collect these deposits for covered merchandise entered or withdrawn for consumption on or after August 4, 2026.

The scope reaches finished or unfinished, assembled or unassembled van-type trailers rated above 26,000 pounds, listed trailer subassemblies, and certain components entered on the same bill of lading. It also reaches Chinese subassemblies or trailers containing them when imported through Canada, but only the Chinese-subassembly portion of a trailer is subject to China countervailing duties; those entries should use ACE case numbers C-122-218 and A-122-219. Subassemblies covered by the separate China chassis orders are excluded, and the written scope controls over the tariff classifications.

The rates and suspension are preliminary, not final. Commerce postponed the final determination and extended provisional measures from four months to a period not greater than six months, with the final determination due no later than December 17, 2026. An interested party seeking a hearing must request one by September 3, 2026; the notice does not yet provide a fixed date for case briefs because that period runs from the last verification report.

Sources

• Van-Type Trailers and Subassemblies Thereof From Canada: Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, Postponement of Final Determination, and Extension of Provisional Measures
  Federal Register · Aug 4, 2026

Chinese chassis AD order retained after sunset review at margins up to 188.05 percent

Revocation of the antidumping duty order on chassis and subassemblies from China would likely lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping. Commerce therefore issued final sunset results supporting continuation of the order, with weighted-average dumping margins likely to prevail of up to 188.05 percent. The result is applicable August 4, 2026.

The stated scope reaches chassis and subassemblies thereof from China, so the controlling lines are product and country of origin. The notice does not identify an exception or transition treatment, and it does not provide the full scope description; that description is in the concurrently adopted Issues and Decision Memorandum. Goods outside the covered product and Chinese-origin scope are not identified as subject by this notice.

Sources

• Chassis and Subassemblies Thereof From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of the Expedited First Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty Order
  Federal Register · Aug 4, 2026

United Kingdom pharmaceuticals: Section 232 rate reduced from 10% to 0%

The Section 232 pharmaceutical duty for the United Kingdom is reduced from 10% to 0% under HTS 9903.04.63 in Harmonized System Update 2619. The bulletin does not state a separate effective date, so the update establishes the changed tariff treatment but does not, in this packet, resolve when filers should apply the 0% rate.

The duty change reaches United Kingdom pharmaceutical entries reported with HTS 9903.04.63; the bulletin provides no broader product list or additional country scope. The same update changes FDA tariff flags from FD4 to FD3 for HTS 2103.20.4020 and 2103.90.9091, from FD2 to FD1 for HTS 8419.40.0010 and 8419.40.0090, and from FD1 to FD2 for HTS 2941.90.5030. Those flag changes apply to the listed HTS classifications, while the bulletin states no exception or separate transition treatment for them.

The bulletin identifies the changed duty and tariff flags but does not explain the underlying FDA flag meanings or state the entry-date rule governing the 10% versus 0% treatment. Filers should therefore confirm the applicable operational treatment before transmitting or correcting affected entries, using the cited update and the listed HTS numbers as the controlling scope available here.

Sources

• CSMS # 69440938 - Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2619
  CBP / CSMS · Aug 4, 2026

Quartz surface products face a four-year tariff-rate quota from August 15

A four-year tariff-rate quota safeguard applies to covered quartz surface products entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after August 15, 2026, at 12:01 a.m. eastern time. The measure provides for annual increases in within-quota quantities and reductions in the duty rates for within-quota and over-quota goods during the second, third, and fourth years. Merchandise subject to the measure admitted to a U.S. foreign-trade zone on or after that time must enter in privileged foreign status and remains subject to the applicable quantitative restrictions or tariffs when entered for consumption.

The measure covers quartz surface products described in the proclamation and classifiable under HTSUS subheadings 6810.99.0020, 6810.99.0040, and 7020.00.6000. It applies to products of all countries unless an exception applies: products of Australia, Canada, the CAFTA-DR countries, Colombia, Israel, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Singapore, and CBERA beneficiary countries and territories are excluded and are not counted toward the quota. Products of listed developing countries are also excluded while each remains at or below a 3 percent share of total imports and all listed countries below 3 percent collectively remain at or below 9 percent; the action can extend to a country if either threshold is exceeded.

The proclamation's Annex supplies the specific within-quota and over-quota quantities and duty rates, but the Annex text is not included in the supplied source. The exact quota allocation and rate applicable to a particular entry therefore cannot be resolved from this packet; the country list in subdivision (c) of Note 41 likewise is not reproduced. Brokers and importers must use the operative Annex and Note 41 provisions when determining whether a covered entry is excluded, within quota, or subject to the over-quota treatment.

Sources

• Proclamation 11051—To Facilitate Positive Adjustment to Competition From Imports of Quartz Surface Products
  Federal Register · Aug 5, 2026

Indonesian fatty acids face preliminary retroactive suspension for Wilmar and all others

Suspension of liquidation is intended for unliquidated entries of subject fatty acids from Indonesia entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after April 24, 2026, for PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia and “All others.” CBP is to require cash deposits equal to the estimated preliminary subsidy rates established in Commerce’s separate preliminary determination, and the suspension is to remain in effect until further notice. The notice does not state the numerical subsidy rates.

The critical-circumstances finding reaches PT Wilmar Nabati Indonesia and “All others” because Commerce preliminarily found both an SCM-Agreement-inconsistent subsidy and massive imports over a relatively short period; Commerce found no critical circumstances for PT Musim Mas because the massive-imports criterion was not met. The operative line is the exporter or producer and the entry date: covered unliquidated entries on or after April 24 are subject to the intended suspension, while PT Musim Mas entries are outside this preliminary critical-circumstances action. Interested parties may submit case briefs seven days after the last verification report and rebuttal briefs five days after case briefs; the notice supplies no date for the last verification report. A hearing request must be filed within 30 days after publication.

Sources

• Certain Fatty Acids From Indonesia: Preliminary Determination of Critical Circumstances, in Part, in the Countervailing Duty Investigation
  Federal Register · Aug 5, 2026

Japan nickel-plated steel review preliminarily sets 0.00% margin and rescinds 14 companies

Commerce preliminarily determines a 0.00 percent weighted-average dumping margin for Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd. for the May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025 period of review, and rescinds the review for 14 companies with no reviewable suspended entries. The preliminary notice is applicable August 5, 2026, but it does not establish the final margin or the cash-deposit rate that will apply after final results.

The action concerns nickel-plated steel products from Japan, but the notice says the complete product scope is in the Preliminary Decision Memorandum, so this notice alone cannot resolve whether a particular product is covered. For the rescinded companies, CBP will assess appropriate entries at the cash-deposit rate required when the goods entered or were withdrawn for consumption; for Toyo Kohan, final results will determine assessment, with liquidation without antidumping duties if the final margin is zero or de minimis. Future cash-deposit requirements begin on publication of the final results, and the all-others rate remains 45.42 percent.

Interested parties must request a hearing through ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after publication, which places the stated deadline on September 4, 2026. Case briefs are due seven days after Commerce issues the verification report, and rebuttal briefs are due five days after the case-brief deadline; the notice says the report will be issued after these preliminary results but does not state its issuance date, so parties must monitor that event to calculate those filing deadlines.

Sources

• Diffusion-Annealed, Nickel-Plated Flat-Rolled Steel Products From Japan: Preliminary Results and Rescission, in Part, of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
  Federal Register · Aug 5, 2026

Also published

• Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of the Expedited Sunset Review of the Countervailing Duty Order
  Federal Register · Aug 4, 2026
• Non-Refillable Steel Cylinders From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of the Expedited Sunset Review of the Countervailing Duty Order
  Federal Register · Aug 4, 2026
• Boltless Steel Shelving Units Prepackaged for Sale From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of the Expedited Second Sunset Review of the Countervailing Duty Order
  Federal Register · Aug 4, 2026

For information only; not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created by publishing or reading it. Every development above cites the official document it rests on, and those sources were checked through August 5, 2026.