Thursday, September 3, 2026

UAS and components: Section 232 rates and Chapter 99 reporting begin September 3

Additional Section 232 duties of 0%, 10%, 15%, 25%, or 100%, depending on the applicable Chapter 99 provision and product category, apply to covered unmanned aircraft systems and components entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after September 3, 2026. Beginning at that time, importers must report an applicable Chapter 99 classification from headings 9903.08.20 through 9903.08.26 for covered goods classified in the identified Chapters 85 and 88 provisions.

The guidance reaches UAS and UAS components from all countries, but treatment turns on the listed HTSUS provision, product characteristics, country of origin, and whether an approved onshoring plan applies. Goods eligible for free-trade or preference treatment still owe these additional duties, while Chapter 98 treatment remains available subject to its terms; no lower-rate or duty-free Chapter 99 claim may be used. The guidance also addresses manufacturing drawback and requires covered FTZ admissions to use privileged foreign status unless domestic status is available under the cited regulation.

Two filing points remain expressly unresolved: CBP says not to report duties under 9903.08.23, 9903.08.24, or 9903.08.26 until further guidance is issued, even though the message describes rates or zero-duty treatment for those provisions. On February 9, 2027, the scope of 9903.08.22 expands to include the specified parts and components, the 25% rate applies to that additional category, and 9903.08.25 expires; 9903.08.26 depends on a Commerce process to be established in a future Federal Register notice.

Sources

• CSMS # 69738151 - Guidance: Section 232 Duties on Imports of Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Components
  CBP / CSMS · Sep 2, 2026

CBP seeks input on supply-chain disclosures; comments due December 1

Comments on CBP’s proposed supply-chain visibility measures must be received by December 1, 2026. The September 2, 2026 advance notice asks whether CBP should require additional foreign export documentation, party and business identifiers, supply-chain tracing information, and related data for imported goods. Because this is an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, it solicits views for possible future regulations and does not itself change a duty, entry requirement, filing field, or release condition.

The potential scope concerns imported goods and the parties involved in their manufacture, production, movement, and exportation, including importers of record, customs brokers, carriers, manufacturers, shippers, exporters, and CTPAT participants. The notice asks whether requirements should apply by entry type, commodity, country, transportation mode, or party, and whether special treatment or exemptions should be considered, but it adopts none of those lines now. A broker or importer therefore has no new disclosure transmission to make under this notice; the immediate action is to submit any desired comment through the docket identified in the notice by the stated deadline. Whether any future rule will require transmission at entry, retention for later inspection, earlier filing, new identifiers, or technology-based tracing remains open for later rulemaking.

Sources

• Heightened Import Disclosures for Supply Chain Visibility
  Federal Register · Sep 2, 2026

China Section 301 exclusions updated for revised statistical numbers

The four identified China Section 301 product exclusions now conform to HTSUS statistical-reporting changes effective July 1, 2026. For goods entered for consumption, or withdrawn from a warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. Eastern time that day, the exclusions’ note provisions use revised statistical descriptions rather than the prior descriptions. The amendments preserve the pre-existing product coverage; they do not state a new duty rate.

The entry-date axis controls the change: entries and warehouse withdrawals before July 1, 2026 remain described under the prior statistical categories, while those on or after that date use 8413.91.9039, 8413.91.9046, 8413.91.9059, or 8413.91.9099 for three amended provisions, and 3926.90.9915 or 3926.90.9920 for the fourth. The notice concerns notes 20(vvv)(i)(4), (i)(5), (i)(6), and (iv)(4) to subchapter III of HTSUS chapter 99. The product scope of the four exclusions is established by the referenced annexes at 89 FR 46948, 90 FR 23987, 90 FR 42500, and 90 FR 55232, whose contents are not included here. CBP will issue entry guidance and implementation instructions, so the packet does not resolve the filing mechanics beyond the revised statistical descriptions.

Sources

• Notice of Conforming Amendments to Product Exclusions: China's Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation
  Federal Register · Sep 2, 2026

Oman PET resin: OCTAL margin amended to 3.02%

OCTAL SAOC FZC’s weighted-average antidumping dumping margin for the May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2024 review period is 3.02 percent. Commerce issued the amended final results to correct an inventory-carrying-cost calculation error, and the amended cash-deposit rate applies to covered shipments entered or withdrawn for consumption on or after September 2, 2026. Commerce will not issue assessment instructions before October 7, 2026, which is 35 days after publication.

The assessment rule reaches appropriate entries of subject PET resin covered by this review, with CBP assessing duties where the importer-specific assessment rate is not zero or de minimis. Unreported OCTAL-produced or OCTAL-exported merchandise entered during the review period is liquidated at the 7.62 percent all-others rate when no intermediate-company rate applies. For cash deposits, OCTAL merchandise uses 3.02 percent; other covered companies use their most recently completed company-specific or producer rate, while merchandise with neither covered exporter nor producer uses 7.62 percent.

Importers must file the required antidumping-duty reimbursement certificate before liquidation of relevant entries during the review period. Failure to do so may lead Commerce to presume reimbursement and assess doubled antidumping duties. If a timely summons is filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade, CBP’s assessment instructions will withhold liquidation of relevant entries until the period for seeking a statutory injunction expires, stated as within 90 days after publication.

Sources

• Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin From the Sultanate of Oman: Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
  Federal Register · Sep 2, 2026

Vietnam steel nails: sunset review finds 288.56%–313.97% likely CVD rates

Revocation of the countervailing duty order on certain steel nails from Vietnam would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of countervailable subsidies, Commerce’s final sunset result says. It identifies net countervailable subsidy rates of 288.56% for Region Industries Co., Ltd., 313.97% for United Nail Products Co. Ltd., and 301.27% for all others. The notice is applicable September 2, 2026.

The result concerns certain steel nails from Vietnam covered by the existing order, but the notice places the full merchandise description in the accompanying Issues and Decision Memorandum, which governs the scope question. The stated rates are the rates likely to prevail if the order were revoked; this notice does not say that it newly imposes those rates or changes the cash-deposit rate for a particular entry. Parties subject to an administrative protective order must timely notify Commerce of return, destruction, or conversion of proprietary information, and failure to comply may be sanctioned.

Sources

• Certain Steel Nails From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Final Results of the Expedited Second Sunset Review of the Countervailing Duty Order
  Federal Register · Sep 2, 2026

Hand trucks from China: antidumping duty order continued

The antidumping duty order covering hand trucks and certain parts from the People’s Republic of China is identified as continued in the Federal Register on September 3, 2026. The accessible record does not show the operative text, duty rate, continuation period, effective date, or any amendment, so it does not establish a new rate or other specific entry rule.

The stated scope reaches hand trucks and certain parts from the People’s Republic of China, but the supplied record does not provide the provision that determines which products, parts, origins, or entries fall within that scope. It also does not state exceptions or transition treatment. Counsel should therefore treat the continuation as material to potentially covered entries while using the full notice to resolve coverage and the applicable duty treatment.

Sources

• Hand Trucks and Certain Parts Thereof From the People's Republic of China: Continuation of Antidumping Duty Order
  Federal Register · Sep 3, 2026

Also published

• Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Korea and the Republic of Türkiye: Final Results of the Expedited Second Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty Orders
  Federal Register · Sep 2, 2026
• Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Türkiye: Final Results of the Expedited Second Sunset Review of the Countervailing Duty Order
  Federal Register · Sep 1, 2026
• Certain Steel Grating From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of the Expedited Third Sunset Review of the Antidumping Duty Order
  Federal Register · Sep 1, 2026
• Request for Comments and Notice of Public Hearing Concerning Russia's Implementation of Its WTO Commitments
  Federal Register · Sep 1, 2026
• Chlorinated Isocyanurates From Spain: Preliminary Results Rescission, in Part of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
  Federal Register · Sep 3, 2026
• Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee
  Federal Register · Sep 3, 2026
• Certain Non-Refillable Steel Cylinders From India: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-25
  Federal Register · Sep 3, 2026
• Non-Oriented Electrical Steel From Japan: Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
  Federal Register · Sep 3, 2026
• Certain Cold-Drawn Mechanical Tubing of Carbon and Alloy Steel From India: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
  Federal Register · Sep 3, 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 September 3, 2026.