🏢Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda
In compliance with Executive Order 12866, entitled "Regulatory Planning and Review," and the Regulatory Flexibility Act, as amended, the Department of Commerce (Commerce), in the spring and fall of each year, publishes in the Federal Register an agenda of regulations under development or review over the next 12 months. Rulemaking actions are grouped according to pre-rulemaking, proposed rules, final rules, long-term actions, and rulemaking actions completed since the publication of the Fall 2024 Unified Agenda. The purpose of the Agenda is to provide information to the public on regulations that are currently under review, being proposed, or recently issued by Commerce. It is expected that this information will enable the public to participate more effectively in Commerce's regulatory process. Commerce's Spring 2025 Unified Agenda includes regulatory activities that are expected to be conducted during the period July 1, 2025, through June 31, 2026.
Learn More🎣Quota Transfer Regulation for Summer Flounder Fishery
NMFS announces that the State of North Carolina is transferring a portion of its 2025 commercial summer flounder quota to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This adjustment to the 2025 fishing year quota is necessary to comply with the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan (FMP) quota transfer provisions. This announcement informs the public of the revised 2025 commercial quotas for North Carolina and Massachusetts.
Learn More🐟Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Public Meeting Notice
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold public meetings of the Council and its Executive Committee.
Learn More⚖️Final Results of Antidumping Duty Review on Electrolytic Manganese Dioxide
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) finds that revocation of the antidumping duty (AD) order on electrolytic manganese dioxide from the People's Republic of China (China) would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping, at the levels indicated in the "Final Results of Sunset Review" section of this notice.
Learn More🧪Countervailing Duty Results for Granular PTFE Resin from India
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that countervailable subsidies were provided to Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited (GFCL), a producer and exporter of granular polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) resin from India. The period of review (POR) is January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023.
Learn More🚗New Tariff Process for Automobile Parts Under Section 232 Regulations
On March 26, 2025, the President issued Proclamation 10908, "Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts into The United States" (Automobile Proclamation). The Automobile Proclamation required the Secretary of Commerce to establish a process for including additional automobile parts articles for passenger vehicles and light trucks within the scope of the tariffs imposed by the President in the Automobile Proclamation. This interim final rule (IFR) establishes the requisite process.
Learn More⚒️Notice of Inclusions Window for Steel and Aluminum Tariffs
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has established a process for including additional derivative steel and aluminum articles within the scope of the duties authorized by the President under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. This notice opens the September 2025 inclusions window for submissions.
Learn More⚖️Preliminary Trade Determination on MDI from China
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) from the People's Republic of China (China) is being, or is likely to be, sold in the United States at less-than-fair-value (LTFV). The period of investigation (POI) is July 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024. Interested parties are invited to comment on this preliminary determination.
Learn More🎣NMFS Prohibits Fishing for Pacific Ocean Perch in Gulf of Alaska
NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Pacific ocean perch in the Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the 2025 total allowable catch of Pacific ocean perch in the Western Regulatory Area of the GOA.
Learn More📦Tariff Changes under the U.S.-Japan Agreement
On July 23, 2025, the President announced a framework agreement between the United States and Japan (the Agreement), which lays the foundation for a new era of U.S.-Japan trade relations grounded in principles of reciprocity and our shared national interests. On September 4, 2025, the President issued Executive Order 14345, Implementing the United States-Japan Agreement, finding that specified tariff actions are consistent with the national interests of the United States and are necessary and appropriate to address the national emergency declared in Executive Order 14257, as amended, and to reduce or eliminate the threats to national security found in certain proclamations issued under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Executive Order 14345 also directed and authorized the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to publish in the Federal Register changes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) with respect to general tariffs on Japanese goods (in consultation with the United States Trade Representative, the Secretary of Homeland Security acting through the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Chair of the United States International Trade Commission (ITC)); products of Japan that fall under the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft, except for unmanned aircraft (in consultation with the Chair of the ITC and the Commissioner of CBP); and products of Japan subject to duties under Proclamation 10908 of March 26, 2025 (Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts Into the United States) (in consultation with the Chair of the ITC and the Commissioner of CBP). This notice amends the HTSUS to implement these provisions of the Agreement.
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