Notice 25 Sep 2025 federal contracts, regulations, government, nonprofit, supply chain, procurement

📦Proposed Deletions from Procurement List Affecting Nonprofits

The Committee is proposing to delete products and service(s) from the Procurement List that were furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have other severe disabilities.

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Proposed Rule 25 Sep 2025 marketing agreements, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, compliance, agriculture, small business, spearmint oil, oils and fats, supply chain, marketing regulations

🌱Regulations on Salable Quantities of Spearmint Oil for 2025-2026

This proposed rule would implement a recommendation from the Far West Spearmint Oil Administrative Committee (Committee) to establish salable quantities and allotment percentages for Class 1 (Scotch) and Class 3 (Native) spearmint oil produced in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon and parts of Nevada and Utah (Far West) for the 2025- 2026 marketing year.

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Notice 24 Sep 2025 commerce, antidumping, supply chain, china, international trade, countervailing duties, regulation

📦Notice of Scope Ruling Applications in Antidumping & CVD Proceedings

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) received scope ruling applications, requesting that scope inquiries be conducted to determine whether identified products are covered by the scope of antidumping duty (AD) and/or countervailing duty (CVD) orders and that Commerce issue scope rulings pursuant to those inquiries. In accordance with Commerce's regulations, we are notifying the public of the filing of the scope ruling applications listed below in the month of August 2025.

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Rule 23 Sep 2025 compliance, energy, reliability standards, federal energy regulatory commission, regulation, supply chain, cybersecurity

⚡New Supply Chain Risk Management Regulations from FERC

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) directs the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the Commission-certified Electric Reliability Organization, to develop new or modified Reliability Standards that address the sufficiency of responsible entities' supply chain risk management plans related to the identification of and response to supply chain risks. Further, the Commission directs NERC to develop modifications related to supply chain protections for protected cyber assets. This final action also terminates a related notice of inquiry.

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Notice 19 Sep 2025 economic impact, transportation, dot, cargo theft, regulation, supply chain

🚚DOT RFI on Cargo Theft

Cargo theft is a growing concern for the U.S. transportation system, costing the economy billions annually. These crimes involve opportunistic "straight thefts" of trailers, containers, and loads at truck stops or multimodal distribution hubs and highly coordinated operations conducted by organized criminal networks. Both categories create significant economic losses, disrupt supply chains, and in some cases fund broader illicit activities such as narcotics trafficking, counterfeiting, and human smuggling. DOT seeks information from State, metropolitan, and local agencies; law enforcement; industry; stakeholders (e.g., carriers, shippers, drivers, warehouse operators (including at airports), insurers); and the public to aid in the development of strategies and potential programs to reduce cargo theft, strengthen supply chain security, and create a safe operating environment for freight stakeholders and the traveling public.

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Notice 18 Sep 2025 countervailing duties, tariff, business regulation, international trade, ceramic tile, supply chain, antidumping

🏺Review Schedule for Antidumping Duties on Ceramic Tile from China

The Commission hereby gives notice of the scheduling of expedited reviews pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930 ("the Act") to determine whether revocation of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on ceramic tile from China would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time.

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Notice 28 Aug 2025 regulatory compliance, trade, supply chain, border protection, customs, global business identifier

🌐Global Business Identifier (GBI) Information Collection Notice

The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). The information collection is published in the Federal Register to obtain comments from the public and affected agencies.

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Notice 26 Aug 2025 mining, regulation, national security, supply chain, economic security, critical minerals

⛏️2025 Draft List of Critical Minerals and Its Business Impact

The United States remains heavily dependent on imports of certain mineral commodities that are vital to the Nation's economic and national security interests. This dependency has the potential to create strategic vulnerabilities arising from adverse foreign actions, pandemics, natural disasters, or other events that can disrupt the supply of critical minerals. The Department of the Interior (DOI) published Lists of Critical Minerals in 2018 \1\ and 2022.\2\ Section 7002 of the Energy Act of 2020 requires the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to update the List of Critical Minerals every three years. This is a Notice of an opportunity to comment on the 2025 draft List of Critical Minerals.

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Presidential Document 19 Aug 2025 regulation, supply chain, pharmaceutical, u.s., domestic production, active pharmaceutical ingredients

💊Executive Order on Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Resilience

Executive Order 14336 aims to strengthen the resilience of the American pharmaceutical supply chain by ensuring a stockpile of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). It mandates the development of a critical drugs list and prioritizes domestic production, highlighting the government's efforts to enhance national security concerning essential medicines and medical countermeasures.

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Notice 8 Aug 2025 customs, u.s. customs and border protection, supply chain, global business identifier, trade compliance

📦Modifications to Global Business Identifier Test by CBP

On February 12, 2024, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published a notice in the Federal Register extending and modifying a National Customs Automation Program Test concerning the submission of unique entity identifiers for the Global Business Identifier (GBI) Evaluative Proof of Concept (EPoC). This document republishes and supersedes that notice, renames the GBI EPoC to the Global Business Identifier Test (GBI Test), adds Altana Technologies USG Inc. (Altana) as a new Identity Management Company (IMC), and establishes a process for other IMCs to support CBP in the test.

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