A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 14, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 12-13, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
In the Dec. 13 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 57, No. 46), CBP published a proposal to revoke and modify ruling letters concerning human tissue samples and another to do the same regarding coated or laminated woven textile fabrics of strip.
CBP released a tip sheet for members of the trade community when filing the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service's organic partner government agency (PGA) message set in ACE (see 2312120065). The tip sheet focuses on the differences between an OR1 and an OR2 message set, and disclaimers that are applicable to the organic PGA message sets.
The 2024 Customs Broker Triennial Status Report (TSR) and the associated $100 filing fee for all licensed customs brokers opens Dec. 18, CBP said. The TSR, which was announced in a Dec. 14 CSMS message, must be submitted by Feb. 29, the agency said.
CBP is going to conduct a test to allow for payment of "certain commercial vessel taxes and fees" with "electronic methods," including credit cards, the agency said. The pilot, announced in a Federal Registernotice, will begin no earlier than Jan. 15, the agency said. Participation in the test is voluntary and will last two years.
CBP will implement cargo messaging to communicate with filers on entry summaries that are "potentially noncompliant" for antidumping and countervailing duties while the entry summaries are under "trade control," the agency said. The messaging, which was announced in a CSMS message on Dec. 14, seeks to address AD/CVD entries that appear to "have omitted companion AD or CVD case numbers and/or applied an improper company-specific 10-digit AD/CVD case number," the agency said.
National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America President J.D. Gonzalez said representatives from the rail industry and ports, and Homeland Security officials, including Undersecretary Robert Silvers, had a good discussion on how to optimize supply chain flows, but he hopes the group will meet quarterly and delve "a little bit deeper into some of the processes" needed to make the advisory group effective.