Friday, August 14, 2026

Yazaki facility liquidation resumes for unliquidated entries

Liquidation has resumed for unliquidated entries of goods from the Grupo Yazaki, S.A. de C.V. facility in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. The prior suspension was directed on November 19, 2025, and USTR now states that a condition under section 752(b) of the USMCA Implementation Act has been met, so the suspension is no longer directed. (USTR)

The direction turns on both facility and entry status: unliquidated entries of goods from the specified Yazaki facility are within the resumed liquidation instruction, while the evidence does not extend it to goods from other facilities or to entries that are no longer unliquidated. USTR directed the Secretary of the Treasury to resume liquidation and asked that Department of Homeland Security and CBP officials be informed. (USTR)

The announcement and resumption letter do not state a separate calendar date for the resumption itself. They establish the November 19, 2025 date for the earlier suspension and describe the present direction as no longer requiring suspension, so the supplied authorities do not resolve whether a separate implementation date applies to a particular entry. (USTR)

Sources

• United States Announces Successful Resolution of Rapid Response Labor Mechanism Matter at Grupo Yazaki, S.A. de C.V.
  USTR · Aug 13, 2026
• Yazaki II Resumption of Liquidation Letter
  USTR

Unmanned aircraft systems face 100% or 25% Section 232 duties

A 100 percent Section 232 duty begins for covered unmanned aircraft systems over 25 kilograms, thermal-imaging unmanned aircraft, docking stations, and specified components entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after September 3, 2026. A 25 percent duty begins on the same date for listed unmanned aircraft systems at or below 25 kilograms without thermal imaging. The listed components in Annex III receive a 25 percent duty beginning February 9, 2027, unless a lower rate applies under the proclamation's country or onshoring provisions. (ANNEX-I-1.pdf; Annex-II-1.pdf; Annex-III.pdf; Annex-IV.pdf)

The entry date controls. Annex I covers the listed aircraft, docking-station equipment, and parts, including parts for systems over 25 kilograms but excluding parts for retail-delivery or agricultural systems and parts sold to the Department of War; Annex II covers the listed aircraft at or below 25 kilograms when they do not have thermal imaging; and Annex III covers listed aircraft-system parts imported for use in unmanned aircraft systems, with Annex I prevailing if both annexes cover the article. Products of the United Kingdom are capped at 10 percent, while products of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, or a European Union member are capped at 15 percent, including Column 1 duty, only when substantially all critical components and technology are certified as originating in the specified jurisdictions. Approved onshoring-plan companies may enter covered products and necessary production equipment without applicable Section 232 duties during construction, subject to the plan and its monitoring requirements. (ANNEX-I-1.pdf; Annex-II-1.pdf; Annex-III.pdf; Annex-IV.pdf)

For Chapter 99 administration, headings 9903.08.21 and 9903.08.22 add 100 percent and 25 percent, respectively, to the applicable subheading rate, while headings 9903.08.23 and 9903.08.24 provide the United Kingdom and specified-partner treatment, and headings 9903.08.25 and 9903.08.26 provide the stated onshoring treatments. The new U.S. note 43 makes those headings mutually exclusive, preserves applicable antidumping, countervailing, and other charges, and generally requires privileged foreign status for covered goods admitted to a foreign-trade zone. Only manufacturing drawback under 19 U.S.C. 1313(a)-(b) is available when the article is not subject to an antidumping or countervailing duty order, is a product of a listed Trade Agreement Partner, and at least 85 percent of its content is from Trade Agreement Partners. (White House)

The proclamation authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to add components through a Federal Register notice, establish the certification process for the country caps, and establish the Commerce onshoring process. The evidence therefore fixes the tariff rates and entry dates but does not provide the later certification or application procedures; importers relying on those treatments must await and follow the applicable notices and CBP administration. (White House)

Sources

• Adjusting Imports of Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Components into the United States
  White House · Aug 13, 2026
• Annex I
  White House
• Annex II
  White House
• Annex III
  White House
• Annex IV
  White House

Polysilicon and solar derivatives face MIP charges and 15% duties

Minimum import prices and additional duties will apply to covered polysilicon and polysilicon derivatives entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after December 4, 2026. The minimum prices are $21 per kilogram for polysilicon, $100 per kilogram for polysilicon ingots and wafers, $0.22 per watt for solar cells, and $0.38 per watt for solar modules. The proclamation also imposes an additional 15 percent ad valorem duty on the listed ingots, wafers, solar cells, and solar modules, subject to the country-specific treatment stated below. (ANNEX-I.pdf; Annex-II.pdf)

The entry-date line controls: goods entered or withdrawn before December 4, 2026 are outside these new measures, while covered goods on or after that date must be handled under them. At entry, the importer must submit documentation showing that the first arm’s-length U.S. sale, or an applicable downstream sale, will meet the minimum import price, or that the sale follows fixed contract terms entered into before August 6, 2026. If the documentation is missing, the specific tariff equals the applicable minimum import price; if documentation is submitted but entered value is below that price, the specific tariff equals the difference. Products of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, or the European Union receive an additional section 232 rate that, together with the Column 1 rate, totals 15 percent, while products of the United Kingdom receive a 10 percent additional rate. The measures also require privileged foreign status for covered goods admitted to a foreign-trade zone, preserve applicable antidumping and countervailing duties, permit manufacturing drawback only for qualifying goods from specified Trade Agreement Partners with entirely qualifying polysilicon content, and allow permanent import prohibitions for an importer and its affiliates after materially inaccurate documentation or material certification noncompliance. (White House)

Sources

• Adjusting Imports of Polysilicon and its Derivatives into the United States
  White House · Aug 6, 2026
• Annex I
  White House
• Annex II
  White House

Greece welded pipe review sets preliminary 0.00% margin and preserves comment rights

A preliminary 0.00 percent weighted-average dumping margin applies to Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry S.A. for the May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2025 period of review. The result is not final: Commerce intends to verify information before issuing final results, and the final rate will control assessment and future cash deposits. For other manufacturers or exporters not covered by a company-specific rate, the notice states that the 10.26 percent all-others rate will continue when the cash-deposit requirements become effective after publication of the final results.

The notice reaches welded pipe from Greece within the order, but it says the Preliminary Decision Memorandum supplies the complete scope description; that instrument therefore governs whether a particular product is covered. Interested parties must file case briefs through ACCESS no later than seven days after the verification report is issued, and rebuttal briefs are due five days after the case-brief deadline. A hearing request must be filed through ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time within 30 days after publication, which is September 13, 2026. The notice also reminds importers to file reimbursement certificates before liquidation of relevant entries during the review period; failure may lead to double-duty assessment.

Sources

• Large Diameter Welded Pipe from Greece: Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2024-2025
  Federal Register · Aug 14, 2026

China passenger tires: final AD rates of 59.15%, 78.33%, 59.77%, and 76.46%

Cash-deposit requirements for subject passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China apply to shipments entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after August 14, 2026. Commerce set margins of 59.15 percent for Qingdao Transamerica, 78.33 percent for Shandong Haohua, and 59.77 percent for Triangle Tyre; the China-wide entity rate remains 76.46 percent.

The rule reaches passenger tires covered by the antidumping order and turns on exporter status and entitlement to a separate rate. Listed separate-rate companies use the final-review rate; other previously reviewed separate-rate exporters retain their existing exporter-specific rates; Chinese exporters without a separate rate use 76.46 percent; and a non-China exporter without its own rate uses the rate of its Chinese supplier. The complete product scope is governed by the Issues and Decision Memorandum, which the notice adopts and identifies as the source for the full scope description.

For the reviewed period, CBP will assess appropriate entries under the final results. Commerce intends to issue assessment instructions no earlier than 35 days after publication, and if a timely summons is filed, the instructions will direct CBP not to liquidate relevant entries until the period to request a statutory injunction expires. Importers must file a reimbursement certificate before liquidation of relevant entries during the review period; failure can lead to a presumption of reimbursement and double antidumping-duty assessment.

Sources

• Certain Passenger Vehicle and Light Truck Tires From the People's Republic of China: Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2023-2024
  Federal Register · Aug 14, 2026

Also reported by Federal Register

Also published

• CSMS # 69498993 - ACE Production Standard Invasive Maintenance from 10:00 p.m. ET Saturday, August 15, 2026 to 4:00 a.m. ET Sunday, August 16, 2026
  CBP / CSMS · Aug 13, 2026

For information only; not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created by publishing or reading it. Every development above cites the official document it rests on, and those sources were checked through August 14, 2026.