Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

21. Department of Commerce · Notable

Require foreign importers of record to post cash deposits or U.S. assets

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668 21. Department of Commerce

“Work, pursuant to the above, with interagency partners in AD/CVD cases to either require foreign importers of record (IORs) to make cash deposits far in excess of established duty rates at the time of entry of AD/CVD merchandise, require IORs to register sufficient U.S. assets to ensure timely payment of duties, or otherwise prohibit IORs from importing AD/CVD merchandise.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    Nothing found. No rule, order or interagency arrangement requires foreign importers of record of AD/CVD merchandise to post cash deposits in excess of their duty rates, to register U.S. assets, or bars them from importing. Commerce's 2024 AD/CVD administration rule remains the operative text and was only corrected in the window (2025-03-31).

    No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

Cluster negative search E&C-1 (chapter log): Federal Register full text since 2025-01-20 for "self-initiation" (1 hit, a 2025-03-31 correction notice), "surrogate country" (73 hits, all individual AD/CVD case notices), "non-market economy" methodology (131, same), "Top Markets" (0); plus a jq pass over every in-window Federal Register record whose agency is the International Trade Administration, with the individual AD/CVD case notices filtered out. Also Federal Register full text since 2025-01-20 for "importer of record" bond, "single transaction bond", "continuous bond" and "cash deposit" "importer of record"; and a check of the CBP slice of fr-rule.ndjson and fr-prorule.ndjson for bonding rulemakings.

The two Commerce AD/CVD rulemakings in the window go to assessment methodology rather than to collateral: the proposed rule on unaffiliated reseller assessment rates and expedited CVD reviews (2025-06-04) and the request for comment on alternatives to Cohen’s d (2025-05-19). Both are recorded at #1830.

Action
restrict
Object
foreign importers of record of AD/CVD merchandise
ID
1827