CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Dec. 9, 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 ADD CVD Search page.
CBP has detained shipments under the recently issued withhold release order on cotton and cotton goods made by Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (see 2012020071), an agency spokesman said Dec. 10. “Specific information about the detentions is law enforcement sensitive and cannot be released at this time,” he said by email. The XPCC WRO took effect on Nov. 30.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Dec. 8, 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 ADD CVD Search page.
Canada is the country of origin for vehicle tracking and near field communication (NFC) reader devices made from components containing software developed and downloaded in Canada, CBP said in a final determination Dec. 9 on the origin for government procurement. Canada is also the country of origin for a satellite device used with the vehicle tracking system because that is where the printed circuit board assemblies “were populated with various components,” CBP said. For NFC fobs made in Taiwan, CBP said the country of origin “will be the country where the NFC chip is produced,” which is usually either Taiwan or Singapore.
CBP created Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2008 Dec. 7, containing 37,804 Automated Broker Interface records and 6,935 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records, it said in a CSMS message. The update covers recent restrictions to Thailand's benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program and cotton fee changes (see 2010020009). Further information: Jennifer Keeling, Jennifer.L.Keeling@cbp.dhs.gov
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Dec. 7, 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 ADD CVD Search page.
CBP released its Dec. 2 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 54, No. 47). It contains recent Court of International Trade decisions, but no customs rulings.
CBP will no longer stop imports of bone black produced by Brazil's Bonechar Carvão Ativado do Brasil Ltda (Bonechar), the agency said in a Dec. 7 news release. The WRO change is effective Dec. 4, though imports of “bone black produced by Bonechar prior to the effective date of the WRO modification remain inadmissible,” it said. The WRO on bone black, a powdered carbon product made from burned cow bones used in the water filtration and sugar refining industries, was issued in 2019 (see 1910010017). CBP made the change “after receiving detailed information about the labor conditions under which Bonechar produces bone black,” it said. There is enough evidence to show “Bonechar and an affiliated importer’s claim that the bone black from the company has not been produced using forced labor since at least August 2020,” CBP said. The agency said “the company addressed each of the five indicators of forced labor identified by CBP in a submission which incorporated data from worker interviews, a site visit, and document reviews.”