A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of May 14, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced certain Colombia FTA TRQs that take effect May 15, 2012. The TRQs apply to sugars, beef, dairy, ice cream and tobacco -- goods of Colombia under the terms of General Note 34 to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). QUOTA PERIOD: May 15, 2012 through December 31, 2012 RESTRAINT LEVEL:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said May 14, 2012 goods of Argentina will lose Generalized System of Preference (GSP) eligibility if entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after May 28, 2012. President Obama issued Presidential Proclamation 8788 (FR 1889, March 29, 2012) suspending Argentina’s GSP eligibility because Argentina had not acted in good faith in enforcing two longstanding arbitral awards.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection provided information on the reallocation of additional tariff-rate quota for raw sugar and reallocation of unused 2012 raw sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ). The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative provided notice of the country-by-country allocations for both categories, effective April 26, 2012.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of May 11, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released its May 9 Customs Bulletin. While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does list recent information collection notices and recent Court of International Trade decisions.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of May 10, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
The remaining five locations for CBP Centers for Expertise and Excellence (CEEs) are yet to be finalized, said officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection. There are currently two CEEs, one for Electronics in Long Beach, Calif. and one for Pharmaceuticals in New York. CBP announced plans for two more CEEs, an Automotive and Aerospace center in Detroit and a Petroleum, Natural Gas and Minerals center in Houston, on May 10, 2012, but locations of five others scheduled to be completed by the end of FY 2013 weren't mentioned in an updated "Trade Transformation" document (here).