This week’s recap of the most recent customs and overseas commerce information:  

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

  • Phase three of the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries (CAPE) refund system was deployed by CBP on October 6. Phase 3 covers lastly liquidated entries from importers that filed swimsuit on the CIT and for which the Court has ordered reliquidation. 
  • CBP issued a proposed rule that might create a framework for low-value imports after the tip of de minimis and formally establishing new casual Entry Type 13 for merchandise coming into by way of the mail. Comments are due December 7. 
  • CBP’s Agriculture and Prepared Products Center of Excellence and Expertise (APP) in Miami uncovered a tariff evasion scheme involving tuna caught by foreign-flagged vessels. The investigation uncovered over $8M in misplaced turnover and virtually $9M in anticipated penalties.

Department of Justice (DOJ) 

  • On October 1, 2026, DOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division issued Directive 26-12, which makes commerce fraud a company enforcement precedence and lists ten elements prosecutors should weigh in deciding whether or not to cost an organization.  

U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) 

  • USTR announced a public session course of forward of the 2027 joint evaluate of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The company is soliciting feedback on the settlement’s operation and can maintain a public listening to. Comments and requests to testify are due January 12, 2027. 
  • USTR announced that the 301 tariffs on China’s Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, and Innovation, that started in 2018, will stay in impact. 
  • USTR announced that 14 economies joined the United States in signing a joint ministerial assertion addressing structural extra capability and manufacturing in key manufacturing sectors. The collaborating economies agreed to pursue coordinated efforts by way of sector-specific platforms to handle non-market practices and commerce distortions. 

Department of Commerce 

  • Commerce announced on October 6 a preliminary affirmative countervailing responsibility willpower involving N-Cyclohexylbenzothiazole-2-Sulfenamide (CBS) from China. The willpower advances the investigation into whether or not Chinese producers and exporters profit from countervailable subsidies. 

U.S. Department of Treasury 

  • Treasury announced the primary civil penalty ever issued underneath the Outbound Investment Security Program (OISP): $200,000 in opposition to Amidi LLC, the U.S. mother or father firm of the group often called Plug and Play Tech Center, for failing to inform Treasury of an asset placement its Chinese fund subsidiary made in a Chinese embodied synthetic intelligence firm.  

Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) 

  • BIS announced that it reached an administrative enforcement settlement with Lambda Research Corporation involving alleged export management violations.  

Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) 

  • The FMC issued an Order asking COSCO Shipping why they didn’t pay an award to a complainant. The $24,329 award has gone unpaid for 223 days. The FMC might impose penalties of as much as $16.7M for the delayed fee.  
  • A FMC choose ordered non-vessel-operating widespread provider Top Shipping Systems (TSS) to pay a Florida-based importer greater than $57,000 for withholding two containers in an try to receive overdue funds. 

Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) 

  • OFAC announced sanctions checklist updates on October 5, together with designation removals and revisions, an Iran-related sanctions alert, and an amended Iran-related incessantly requested query.  

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 

  • FDA released its 2025 CORE+EP annual report on October 6, summarizing investigations of foodborne outbreaks and opposed occasions involving FDA-regulated meals.  

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) 

  • The FTC and U.S. Department of Agriculture introduced on October 7 a joint public inquiry into agricultural gear manufacturing and distribution practices. The businesses are in search of details about market circumstances and practices affecting competitors within the agricultural gear trade. 

Industry News 

  • Pamir Solutions announced that the corporate gave the Department of Homeland Security Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List Office entry to its compelled labor threat intelligence platform. The platform tracks the workforce inside factories throughout China by way of open-source analysis and identifies potential publicity to compelled labor. 

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