Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Entry Type 13 ACE filing changes include deleted error codes 253 and 331

ACE Cargo Release CATAIR instructions and Cargo Release Condition Codes are changing for Entry Type 13. CBP states that the changes are expected to deploy to the ACE Production environment on September 22, 2026. The update deletes error codes 253 and 331 and updates error code 327, while also revising specified SE10, SE15, SE30, and SE60 notes.

The operative scope is the entry-type field: the notice identifies these changes as pertaining to Entry Type 13. Filers submitting Entry Type 13 cargo release transmissions should review the revised CATAIR notes and condition-code documentation before the expected production deployment. The notice does not identify corresponding changes for other entry types, and it does not state any exception or carve-out. Because the materials are expressly drafts and deployment is described as expected, the final production implementation is not established by this notice alone.

Sources

• Draft ACE Cargo Release CATAIR
  CBP / CSMS · Aug 11, 2026
• Cargo Release Condition Codes
  CBP / CSMS · Aug 11, 2026

Polysilicon and derivatives: minimum prices and 15% duty from December 4

Minimum import prices of $21 per kilogram for polysilicon, $100 per kilogram for polysilicon ingots and wafers, $0.22 per watt for solar cells, and $0.38 per watt for solar modules will apply to covered goods entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after December 4, 2026. The same entries will also face an additional 15 percent ad valorem duty for the polysilicon ingots, wafers, solar cells, and solar modules specified in the proclamation and its annexes. (ANNEX-I.pdf; Annex-II.pdf)

At entry, an importer must submit documentation establishing or certifying that the first arm’s-length U.S. sale, or an applicable downstream sale, will occur at or above the applicable minimum import price, or that the sale is under fixed contract terms entered into before August 6, 2026. Without that documentation, the specific tariff equals the applicable minimum import price; with documentation, a specific tariff equal to the difference applies when the entry summary value is below the minimum. The precise covered merchandise is governed by Annexes I and II, including the listed HTSUS provisions, and Annex I states that its descriptions do not limit the Section 232 scope. (ANNEX-I.pdf; Annex-II.pdf)

For covered products of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, or a European Union member state, the applicable Column 1 duty and the additional Section 232 ad valorem duty together equal 15 percent; for covered products of the United Kingdom, the additional rate is 10 percent. The proclamation allows manufacturing drawback only for qualifying articles that are not subject to an antidumping or countervailing duty order, are products of specified Trade Agreement Partners, and contain only partner-country polysilicon. Covered goods admitted to a foreign-trade zone after the effective date generally require privileged foreign status, and materially inaccurate documentation or material certification noncompliance can result in a permanent import prohibition for the importer and affiliates. (White House)

Sources

• Adjusting Imports of Polysilicon and its Derivatives into the United States
  White House · Aug 6, 2026
• Annex I
  White House
• Annex II
  White House

Quartz surface products face a 25% quota rate and 50% over-quota rate

A four-year tariff-rate quota begins for covered quartz surface products entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on August 15, 2026. During the first annual period, the additional duty is 25% under heading 9903.45.30 within the quota and 50% under heading 9903.45.31 above the quota. The rates step down to 23% and 49% on August 15, 2027, 21% and 48% on August 15, 2028, and 19% and 47% on August 15, 2029. These duties are cumulative and apply in addition to the underlying chapters 68 or 70 duty and any applicable antidumping, countervailing, or other duties and charges. (White House)

The scope turns on the product and country of origin. Covered QSP includes silica-predominant slabs and other surfaces, including countertops, tiles, and fabricated or unfinished products, even when attached to or packaged with non-subject merchandise; quarried granite, marble, soapstone, and quartzite are excluded. The quota covers 13,006,426 square meters in the August 15, 2026–August 14, 2027 period, allocated in quarterly quantities of 3,251,606 square meters, with larger annual and quarterly quantities in each later period. Unused quarterly quantity carries forward, and excess entries use heading 9903.45.31. Products of Canada, Mexico, Australia, Colombia, the listed CAFTA-DR countries, Israel, Korea, Panama, Peru, Singapore, CBERA beneficiaries, and qualifying developing countries are excluded from these rates and quotas, subject to the developing-country 3% individual and 9% collective import-share thresholds. Covered merchandise admitted to a foreign-trade zone on or after August 15, 2026, must generally enter as privileged foreign status and remains subject to the applicable quota or tariff upon consumption entry. (White House)

Sources

• To Facilitate Positive Adjustment to Competition from Imports of Quartz Surface Products
  White House · Jul 31, 2026
• ANNEX.pdf
  White House

Scientific-instrument duty-free applications open for comment through September 1

Comments are invited on four applications for duty-free entry of scientific instruments, with written comments due by September 1, 2026. The notice does not grant duty-free entry; it opens the statutory process for determining whether instruments of equivalent scientific value are manufactured in the United States.

The applications cover Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Nu Sapphire from the United Kingdom, and UChicago Argonne LLC's CVD Diamond Windows and Electron Bean Evaporator from Germany and RF Power Amplifier from Japan. Comments must comply with 15 CFR 301.5(a)(3) and (4), be postmarked by September 1, 2026, and be sent to the Statutory Import Programs Staff, with a copy emailed to the address stated in the notice.

The notice leaves the substantive eligibility question unresolved: it records the applicants' assertions that no instruments of the same general category are manufactured in the United States, but does not state a final determination or the resulting duty treatment for any instrument.

Sources

• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory et al; Application(s) for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
  Federal Register · Aug 12, 2026

China wooden bedroom furniture: 216.01% cash deposits for no-separate-rate exporters

A 216.01 percent antidumping cash-deposit rate applies from August 12, 2026, to subject wooden bedroom furniture from China when the exporter lacks a separate rate. Commerce’s final review results place 11 named companies in the China-wide entity, and CBP must assess duties on appropriate entries under those results. Exporters with an existing separate rate keep that rate.

The entry-date rule controls: the new deposit requirements reach subject merchandise from China entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after August 12, 2026. China exporters without a separate rate, including the 11 companies that failed to establish eligibility in this review, receive the 216.01 percent China-wide rate; non-China exporters without a separate rate receive the margin applicable to the China exporter that supplied them. The covered product is wooden bedroom furniture from China, but the full scope is governed by Appendix I to the Preliminary Results.

For entries of subject merchandise from the listed companies, Commerce intends to instruct CBP to liquidate no earlier than 35 days after publication. If a timely summons is filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade, Commerce will direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the period for requesting a statutory injunction expires, which the notice states is within 90 days of publication. Importers also must file the required reimbursement certificate before liquidation for relevant entries during the review period; failure can lead to presumed reimbursement and double antidumping-duty assessment.

Sources

• Wooden Bedroom Furniture From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024
  Federal Register · Aug 12, 2026

Nepal cultural materials restricted from U.S. entry

Entry of designated archaeological and ethnological material of Nepal is restricted effective August 12, 2026. CBP added Nepal to 19 CFR 12.104g(a), implementing the bilateral agreement through the cultural-property import restriction regime. The rule covers archaeological material ranging from approximately 32,000 B.C.E. through 1770 C.E. and ethnological material ranging from approximately the 13th century C.E. through 1950 C.E.; it does not establish an additional duty rate.

The operative line is the material and its fit within CBP's Designated List, not a tariff rate or ordinary country-of-origin duty treatment. Material designated as archaeological or ethnological material of Nepal is restricted from entry unless the conditions in 19 U.S.C. 2606 and 19 CFR 12.104c are met. The categories include archaeological objects such as stone, ceramics, metal, paintings, manuscripts, organic material, and human remains, and ethnological religious architectural elements, religious and ceremonial items, and manuscripts. The list is representative, its dates and dimensions are approximate, and the restrictions expire January 8, 2031, unless extended for an additional period of not more than five years.

Sources

• Imposition of Import Restrictions on Categories of Archaeological and Ethnological Material of Nepal
  Federal Register · Aug 12, 2026

Nine scientific instruments approved for duty-free entry

Duty-free entry was approved for nine foreign scientific instruments identified in the decision. The approval follows the Department of Commerce’s finding that no instrument of equivalent scientific value was being manufactured in the United States at the time of order, covering instruments from manufacturers in the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Japan, Germany, Brazil, and Switzerland.

The decision reaches the instruments and applicants identified in docket numbers 26-034, 26-042, 26-047, 26-052, 26-057, 26-072, 26-077, 26-078, and 6-084, including the Taylor Reactor, LS Spectrometer, JIB-4700F Multi-Beam System, Gyrotron and DNP Probe, Cryoprobe, Laser Rack System, High Energy Small Pixel Detector, JEM-3300 CRYO Arm, and Control Platform and Accessories. The notice does not extend the approval to other instruments or identify any exceptions, transition rule, or separate entry-filing procedure.

Sources

• UChicago Argonne LLC et al; Notice of Decision on Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
  Federal Register · Aug 12, 2026

Also published

• CSMS # 69494418 - Updated ACE Development and Deployment Schedule Posted to CBP.gov/ACE
  CBP / CSMS · Aug 11, 2026
• CSMS # 69495659 - ACE Certification Standard Invasive Maintenance Window on August 12, 2026 from 5:00 p.m. ET to 08:00 p.m. ET
  CBP / CSMS · Aug 11, 2026
• Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Steel Import License
  Federal Register · Aug 12, 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 12, 2026.