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CBP AD and CV Messages as of Aug. 3
August 4, 2020 |Customs

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Aug. 3, 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 AD and CV Messages as of July 31
August 3, 2020 |Customs

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website July 31, 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 Revises WRO on Tobacco From Malawi
August 3, 2020 |Customs

CBP updated its withhold release order on tobacco from Malawi so “tobacco imported from Limbe Leaf Tobacco Company Ltd. (LLTC) will be admissible at all U.S. ports of entry” as of July 31, the agency said in an Aug. 1 news release. CBP issued the original WRO in 2019 (see 1911010026). CBP “modified the WRO based on a rigorous evaluation of LLTC’s social compliance program and efforts to identify and minimize the risks of forced labor from its supply chain,” it said. “These actions produced evidence that sufficiently supports LLTC’s claims that tobacco from its farms is not produced and harvested using forced labor.” The update is proof of “the power of WROs to induce positive change in U.S. supply chains,” said Brenda Smith, executive assistant commissioner of CBP’s Office of Trade. CBP previously updated the WRO for another company for similar reasons (see 2006030037). “The WRO continues to apply to imports of tobacco from Malawi by any company that has not demonstrated to CBP that there is no forced labor in its supply chain,” CBP said.

Topics:Forced Labor
CBP Announces Filing Procedures for Recently Granted 4th Tranche Section 301 Exclusions
August 3, 2020 by Tim Warren|Customs

CBP will add the ability in ACE for importers to file entries with recently excluded goods in the fourth tranche of Section 301 tariffs on Aug. 6, it said in a CSMS message. The official Office of the U.S. Trade Representative notice for the exclusions was published July 23 (see 2007210026). The exclusions are in subheading 9903.88.53. The exclusions are available for any product that meets the description in the Annex to USTR’s notice, regardless of whether the importer filed an exclusion request. The product exclusions apply retroactively to Sept. 1, 2019, the date the tariffs on the fourth list took effect, and remain in effect until Sept. 1, 2020. The CSMS message also includes a summary of Section 301 duties that shows information on each tranche of tariffs and granted product exclusions.

Topics:Customs duty
CBP AD and CV Messages as of July 30
July 31, 2020 |Customs

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website July 30, 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 Awarded $15 Million to Update Revenue Collections in ACE
July 31, 2020 by Mara Lee|Customs

The General Services Administration has granted $15 million to CBP from the Technology Modernization Fund to pay for the work to move revenue collection at the agency from a mainframe computer to a more modern approach. Currently, CBP used ACE to collect more than $80 billion in the last fiscal year, and the Automated Commercial System, which is the last mainframe segment of ACE, is used to collect tariffs, taxes and fees, CBP said in a July 31 news release. The ACS runs 3.9 million lines of COBOL, a 30-year-old programming language. By moving the revenue system to a cloud-based system, CBP will no longer use mainframe computers for any of its functions. It will “achieve operational efficiencies that will decrease its current software expenses and reduce other existing development and maintenance expenditures. CBP anticipates it will have a greater ability to serve its mission by modernizing the basic functionality of its collections system,” CBP said. The award was announced July 27.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)