Notice 25 Apr 2025 regulatory compliance, trade, imports, national security, u.s. department of commerce, critical minerals

🪨Public Comment Request on Critical Minerals National Security Investigation

On April 22, 2025, the Secretary of Commerce initiated an investigation to determine the effects on the national security of imports of processed critical minerals as well as their derivative products. This investigation has been initiated under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended (Section 232). Interested parties are invited to submit written comments, data, analyses, or other information pertinent to the investigation to the Department of Commerce's (Department) Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Office of Strategic Industries and Economic Security. This notice identifies issues on which the Department is especially interested in obtaining the public's views.

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Proposed Rule 24 Apr 2025 transportation, imports, wildlife, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, business compliance, exports, wildlife management, outdoor recreation, hunting, migratory birds, hunting regulations

🦆Proposed 2025-26 Frameworks for Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service or we) is proposing to establish the frameworks from which States may select season dates, limits, and other options for the 2025-26 migratory game bird hunting season. We annually prescribe outside limits (which we call frameworks) within which States may select hunting seasons. Frameworks specify the outside dates, season lengths, shooting hours, bag and possession limits, and areas where migratory game bird hunting may occur. These frameworks are necessary to allow State selections of seasons and limits and to allow harvest at levels compatible with migratory game bird population status and habitat conditions. Migratory game bird hunting seasons provide opportunities for recreation and sustenance and aid Federal, State, and Tribal governments in the management of migratory game birds.

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Proposed Rule 18 Apr 2025 regulatory compliance, imports, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, intergovernmental relations, small businesses, energy conservation, household appliances, confidential business information, doe, consumer products, portable electric spas

🚫Proposed Withdrawal of Energy Standards for Portable Electric Spas

DOE is proposing to withdraw its prior determination that portable electric spas ("PESs") qualify as covered products under Part A of Title III of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, as amended ("EPCA").

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Proposed Rule 17 Apr 2025 compliance, transportation, imports, administrative practice and procedure, wildlife, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, endangered species act, exports, endangered and threatened species, plants, wildlife regulations, deregulation, small business impact

🦏Rescinding "Harm" Definition in Endangered Species Act

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" in our Endangered Species Act (ESA or the Act) regulations. The existing regulatory definition of "harm," which includes habitat modification, runs contrary to the best meaning of the statutory term "take." We are undertaking this change to adhere to the single, best meaning of the ESA.

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Notice 16 Apr 2025 commerce, trade, countervailing duties, imports, korea, stainless steel

🛠️Final Results of Countervailing Duty Review on Stainless Steel from Korea

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain producers and exporters of stainless steel sheet and strip in coils (SSSS in coils) from the Republic of Korea (Korea) received countervailable subsidies during the period of review (POR) January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022.

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Rule 15 Apr 2025 regulation, imports, administrative practice and procedure, business compliance, intergovernmental relations, small businesses, department of energy, energy conservation, household appliances, confidential business information, energy efficiency, showerheads

🚿Repeal of Showerhead Definition

As part of its implementation of an Executive order, the U.S. Department of Energy repeals the definition of a showerhead.

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Notice 15 Apr 2025 compliance, countervailing duties, international trade, antidumping, imports, trade regulation

📦Rescission of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews

Based upon the timely withdrawal of all review requests, the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is rescinding the administrative reviews covering the periods of review (PORs) of the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders identified in the table below.

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Presidential Document 14 Apr 2025 trade, china, imports, business compliance, executive order, tariffs

📦Amendment to Tariffs and Duties on Low-Value Imports from China

Executive Order 14259 modifies reciprocal tariffs and duties applied to low-value imports from China in response to ongoing trade imbalances. The order outlines new duty rates, increased tariff measures in retaliation to Chinese tariffs, and mandates actions for implementation by relevant U.S. agencies to safeguard national security and economic stability.

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Rule 11 Apr 2025 customs duties and inspection, imports, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, customs regulations, el salvador, cultural property, import restrictions, historical artifacts

🏺Import Restrictions on El Salvador's Cultural Material Extended Through 2030

This document amends the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations to extend import restrictions on certain material from the Republic of El Salvador. The Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, has made the requisite determinations for extending the import restrictions, originally imposed on certain archaeological material by Treasury Decision 95-20, and amended by CBP Decision 20-04 to cover certain ecclesiastical ethnological material. These import restrictions are being extended pursuant to an exchange of diplomatic notes. The CBP regulations are being amended to reflect this further extension through March 2, 2030.

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Notice 11 Apr 2025 commerce, imports, trade regulations, countervailing duty, india, overhead door springs

⚙️Correction on Countervailing Duty Determination for Overhead Door Springs

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) published notice in the Federal Register of April 3, 2025, in which Commerce published the affirmative countervailing duty (CVD) determination in the investigation of overhead door counterbalance torsion springs (overhead door springs) from India. This notice corrects the name of the company Asha Spring and Engineering Company.

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