🍬USDA Revises Sugar Marketing Allocations for FY 2025
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is issuing this notice to: revise fiscal year (FY) 2025 (crop year 2024) beet sugar allocations to sugar beet processors; state cane sugar allotments and allocations to sugarcane processors; and to reassign FY 2025 cane sugar marketing allocations to raw cane sugar imports already anticipated. These actions apply to all domestic beet and cane sugar marketed in the United States from October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025. USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) also announced today that it does not expect to purchase and sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for crop year 2024, which runs from Oct. 1, 2024, to Sept. 30, 2025.
Learn More⚖️Court Decision on Aluminum Extrusions Influences Countervailing Duties
On July 9, 2025, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued its final judgment in Kingtom Aluminio, S.R.L., et al v. United States, Consol. Court No. 22-00079, sustaining the U.S. Department of Commerce's (Commerce) first remand results pertaining to the administrative review of the countervailing duty (CVD) order on aluminum extrusions from People's Republic of China (China) covering the period of review (POR) January 1, 2019, through December 31, 2019. Commerce is notifying the public that the CIT's final judgment is not in harmony with Commerce's final results of the administrative review, and that Commerce is amending the final results with respect to the countervailable subsidy rate assigned to producer and/or exporter Kingtom Aluminio S.R.L. (Kingtom).
Learn More🍬FY 2026 WTO Tariff-Rate Quotas for Sugar Established
The Foreign Agricultural Service announces the establishment of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 (October 1, 2025-September 30, 2026) in- quota aggregate quantity of raw cane sugar at 1,117,195 metric tons raw value (MTRV), and the establishment of the FY 2026 in-quota aggregate quantity of certain sugars, syrups, and molasses (also referred to as refined sugar) at 22,000 MTRV.
Learn More⚙️Preliminary Determination on Countervailing Duties for Door Springs
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that critical circumstances exist, in part, with respect to imports of overhead door counterbalance torsion springs (overhead door springs) from certain producers and exporters from the People's Republic of China (China). Interested parties are invited to comment on this preliminary determination of critical circumstances.
Learn More🚫OFAC Sanctions Notice and Its Impact on Business Owners
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the names of persons and a vessel that have been placed on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) based on OFAC's determination that one or more applicable legal criteria were satisfied. All property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these persons and vessel are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.
Learn More🔧Initiating Circumvention Inquiry on Engine Imports from China
In response to a circumvention inquiry request from Briggs & Stratton, LLC (Briggs & Stratton), the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is initiating a circumvention inquiry to determine whether certain models of vertical shaft engines exported from the People's Republic of China (China) are circumventing the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on vertical shaft engines between 99cc and 225cc, and parts thereof (small vertical engines) from China.
Learn More⚖️Executive Order 14316 Expands Suspension of Tariff Rates
Executive Order 14316 addresses trade disparities by extending the suspension of reciprocal tariff rates until August 1, 2025. It outlines the government's authority to modify tariff schedules in response to trading partner actions and emphasizes national security and economic stability concerns due to trade deficits.
Learn More🛢️Accreditation of Bureau Veritas as Gauger and Laboratory for Customs
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to CBP regulations, that Bureau Veritas Commodities and Trade, Inc. (Vancouver, WA), has been approved to gauge petroleum and certain petroleum products and accredited to test petroleum and certain petroleum products for customs purposes for the next three years as of January 11, 2024.
Learn More🚢Analysis of Freeport LNG Export Commencement Deadline Extension Request
The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) (formerly the Office of Fossil Energy (FE)) of the Department of Energy (DOE) gives notice (Notice) of receipt of a request (Request), filed on June 23, 2025, by Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P. and FLNG Liquefaction 4, LLC (collectively, FLEX4). FLEX4 requests to amend its existing authorization to export domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) to non-free trade agreement countries set forth in DOE/FE Order No. 4374 (as amended)--specifically, to extend the current export commencement deadline in its order. FLEX4 filed the Request under the Natural Gas Act (NGA).
Learn More🌍New Sanctions Regulations from OFAC Enable Key Business Transactions
The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing six general licenses (GLs) issued pursuant to the Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations and Foreign Terrorist Organizations Sanctions Regulations: GLs 22A, 23A, 24A, 25A, 26A, and 28A.
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