Commerce's International Trade Administration has rescinded the 2025 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on common alloy aluminum sheet from the People's Republic of China. The Federal Register notice does not state the companies covered, the reason for the rescission or the cash deposit rates that will apply.
Qcells announced it will offer domestic-frame options for its Q.TRON AC and Q.PEAK DUO AC residential solar panels in the United States, with aluminum frames extruded, anodized and fabricated in Tennessee by ALUKO Group at its Halls, Tennessee facility. Qcells says the frames will help meet minimum domestic content requirements for certain third-party owned solar projects. The facility is expected to begin full production by the end of 2026, with planned annual capacity to support 4 GW of solar panels; ALUKO plans 285 new full-time jobs and more than $107 million invested in Tennessee within five years.
The USITC has scheduled full five-year reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on common alloy aluminum sheet from Bahrain, Brazil, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Oman, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey. The notice covers the scheduling of those reviews; the material does not state review deadlines, hearing dates, or the orders' current cash deposit rates.
McKinsey & Company's Global Energy Perspective 2026 finds that under its "Fragmented Energy Order" scenario, tariffs and trade restrictions raise U.S. clean-technology costs, with battery energy storage facing the largest premium among low-carbon assets at a 40% to 50% increase in capital expenditure, driven by cathode material tariffs, critical mineral bottlenecks and supply chain localization barriers. The report says broad duties on steel and aluminum add indirect capital costs to balance-of-system components, including aluminum frames, which it puts at roughly 14% of total solar panel production costs, and steel used in ground-mounted tracking and racking.
Commerce is self-initiating a circumvention inquiry to determine whether certain aluminum composite panels (ACPs) produced in China by Shanghai Alumetal Decorative Material Co. (Alumetal) are circumventing the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on common alloy aluminum sheet from China. The inquiry applies as of October 2, 2026. The AD order is at 84 FR 2813 and the CVD order at 84 FR 2157.
The USITC instituted five-year reviews on October 1, 2026, to determine whether revocation of the countervailing duty orders on aluminum foil from Oman and Turkey and the antidumping duty orders on aluminum foil from Armenia, Brazil, Oman, Russia and Turkey would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury. Interested parties must respond to the notice by November 2, 2026, to be assured of consideration, and comments on the adequacy of responses may be filed by December 8, 2026.
Commerce issued the final results of changed circumstances reviews and revoked, in part, the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on common alloy aluminum sheet from China, Bahrain, Brazil, Croatia, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Oman, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan and Türkiye, applicable September 24, 2026. The partial revocation covers certain aluminum can stock, and Commerce clarified the scope to include temper H-39 in the modified aluminum can stock exclusion language.
The U.S. Court of International Trade, in Slip Op. 26-117, Court No. 25-00212, denied IPG Photonics Corporation's motion for judgment on the agency record and sustained Commerce's final scope ruling that IPG's four heat sink models do not meet the finished heat sink exclusion and are covered by the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on aluminum extrusions from China, Case Nos. A-570-967 and C-570-968. The court held that Commerce's interpretation of the exclusion and its consideration of IPG's evidence were supported by substantial evidence and in accordance with law. The opinion is dated September 23, 2026.
Commerce determines in the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review that countervailable subsidies were provided to Oman Aluminium Rolling Company SPC (OARC), a producer and exporter of certain aluminum foil from the Sultanate of Oman, during the period of review January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023. The final results are applicable September 15, 2026, and follow the preliminary results published at 91 FR 27017. Commerce found OARC cross-owned with Sohar Paper Cores LLC, Takamul Investment Company LLC, and OQ SAOC. The notice does not state the cash deposit rates.
Global Affairs Canada states in Notice to Importers Serial No. 1170 that, effective October 1, 2026, importers of aluminum products under General Import Permit No. 83 must report and keep records of the country of largest smelt, country of second-largest smelt (if any) and country of most recent cast.
The Canada Border Services Agency advises that the United States Surtax Remission Order (2025) has been amended to grant relief of surtaxes paid or payable under the United States Surtax Order (2025-1), the United States Surtax Order (2026), the United States Surtax Order (Steel and Aluminum 2025) and the United States Surtax Order (Motor Vehicles 2025) for eligible goods, including goods imported for use in Canadian manufacturing, processing and food and beverage packaging, and for public health, health care, public safety and national security uses.
The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained in full the U.S. International Trade Commission's final negative determination in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of aluminum extrusions from China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam, in Slip Op. 26-101, Court No. 24-00209, and denied plaintiffs' motion for judgment on the agency record. The Commission found the domestic industry was neither materially injured nor threatened with material injury by reason of subject imports during the January 2021 to March 2024 period of investigation.
The Canada Border Services Agency states in Customs Notice 26-15 that, when the Order Amending the General Import Permit No. 83 — Aluminum Products comes into force on October 1, 2026, importers must submit the country of largest smelt (CLS), country of second-largest smelt (C2S) and country of most recent cast (CRC) to the CBSA via the Single Window Initiative Integrated Import Declaration; until then submission is optional. The requirements apply to all aluminum HS codes in Global Affairs Canada's SWI IID Regulated Commodities Data Element Matching Criteria Table, and cover goods containing primary aluminum for CLS and C2S and all goods covered by GIP 83 for CRC.
The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained Commerce's remand redetermination denying Jiangsu Dingsheng New Materials Joint-Stock Co., Ltd. and affiliated plaintiffs a double remedies adjustment under 19 U.S.C. § 1677f-1(f)(1) in the 2021–2022 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on aluminum foil from China. In Slip Op. 26-63, Court No. 23-00264, Judge Claire R. Kelly held that Commerce's finding that Dingsheng provided insufficient evidence of a subsidy-to-cost link and a cost-to-price link is supported by substantial evidence, and that 19 U.S.C. § 1677m(d) did not require Commerce to give notice of deficiencies in the Double Remedies Questionnaire Response.