Customs and Border Protection's Office of Automated Commercial Systems (ACS) has posted an updated list of 38 companies/persons offering air Automated Manifest System (AMS) communication and data processing services to the trade community. Inclusion on the list doesn't constitute an endorsement by CBP about the nature, extent or quality of the services, which may be provided, it cautioned.
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 18, 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. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is extending the comment period to June 20, 2012 for an existing information collection concerning the Application to use the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the burden hours or to the information collected.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a May 2012 package of test questions for Automated Export System participants to be transmitted to CBP within an agreed upon time frame for operational certification. The long test is available here, the short test here. Such tests must be taken by self-programming exporters, brokers, forwarding agents, vendors and service centers.
In the May 16, 2012 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 21), CBP published notice that it is withdrawing its proposed revocation of a ruling on plastic recorder musical instruments due to its receipt of adverse comment. CBP also published a notice that it is withdrawing its proposed modification of a ruling on Acetyl L-Carnitine Hydrochloride, as its classification is being litigated.
In a report on improving U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s detection and deterrence of antidumping and countervailing duty evasion, the Government Accountability Office urged CBP to create a policy and a mechanism for information sharing among ports regarding the use of single transaction bonds (STB) and implement a plan to systematically track and report on AD/CV duty evasion, and said the International Trade Administration should provide advance notice of issuance of liquidation instructions in order to allow CBP to better manage resources. The report, entitled “Antidumping and Countervailing Duties: Management Enhancements Needed to Improve Efforts to Detect and Deter Duty Evasion”, was requested by Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has listed the goods of Colombia under the terms of HTS General Note 34 that are eligible for Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA) tariff rate quotas for the period May 15, 2012 - December 31, 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 17, 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. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)