CBP posted more documents ahead of the March 31 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting:
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CBP posted more documents ahead of the March 31 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting:
CBP posted some documents ahead of the March 31 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting:
The State Department announced penalties on two people and four foreign entities and their subsidiaries for illegal transfers under the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act, according to a notice. The agency said the parties transferred items subject to multilateral control lists that contribute to weapons proliferation or missile production. The State Department barred them from making certain purchases of items controlled on the U.S. Munitions List and by the Arms Export Control Act and will suspend any current export licenses used by the entities. The agency also will bar them from receiving new export licenses for any goods subject to the Export Administration Regulations. The restrictions will remain in place for two years from the March 14 effective date.
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CBP should recognize imports of goods under the $800 de minimis threshold as entries, as a way to help prevent low value goods made with forced labor from coming into the U.S., the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America said in comments to DHS on implementing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. "By treating the commercial de minimis exemption instead as an entry of merchandise, the Government can continue to promote the administrative ease that section 321 affords legitimate gift and personal use shipments, while also ensuring goods imported under the commercial de minimis exemption are eligible and admissible and pose no threat to our country’s economy, safety, health, or security and particularly are free of forced labor," the trade group said.
Though the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) designates polysilicon as a “high-priority enforcement sector,” the polysilicon produced in Xinjiang, and elsewhere in China, “currently does not meet the extremely high levels of purity required for semiconductor-grade polysilicon,” the Semiconductor Industry Association commented in docket DHS-2022-0001. The comments were in response to a DHS notice on how best to comply with UFLPA measures for preventing goods produced with forced labor in China from being imported into the U.S. CBP, under the direction of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), is scheduled to begin enforcing the statute’s “rebuttable presumption” measures June 21.
CBP posted an updated guidance document on proving admissibility for goods that are stopped due to the withhold release order aimed at silicon produced by Hoshine Silicon Industry, a company located in China's Xinjiang province, and its subsidiaries (see 2106240062). The guidance is "intended to provide information to the trade community including contact information on where to seek guidance on admissibility packages, tips for admissibility package submissions, processing expectations after initial supply chain verification, and advance rulings," CBP said in its description. The agency previewed much of the document during a recent webinar (see 2203070075).