CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 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 ADD CVD Search page.
CBP has assessed about $62 billion in duties under the major trade remedies started during the Trump administration as of May 13, according to CBP's trade statistics page. That includes $51.4 billion in duties from the Section 301 tariffs on goods from China, and $486.1 million in Section 301 tariffs on goods from the European Union. CBP also has assessed about $7 billion under the Section 232 tariffs on steel and $2.1 billion under tariffs on aluminum. The Section 201 trade remedies on washing machines, washing machine parts and solar cells account for $1.7 billion in assessed tariffs. CBP's statistics account for refunds provided to importers.
CBP added on May 14 the ability in ACE for importers to file entries with recently excluded goods in the third tranche of Section 301 tariffs, it said in a CSMS message. The official Office of the U.S. Trade Representative notice for the exclusions was published on May 8 (see 2005050037). The exclusions are in subheading 9903.88.46. 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. 24, 2018, and will expire after Aug. 7, 2020. The CSMS message also includes a summary of Section 301 duties that shows information on each tranche of tariffs and granted product exclusions.
CBP announced the calendar year 2020 tariff-rate quota for tuna in airtight containers, in a notice. It said 15,881,292 kilograms of tuna in air-tight containers may be entered and withdrawn from warehouse for consumption during 2020, at the rate of 6% under HTS subheading 1604.14.22. Any such tuna that is entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption during the current calendar year in excess of this quota will be dutiable at the rate of 12.5% under HTS subheading 1604.14.30.
The following customs brokers' licenses and all associated permits are revoked without prejudice for failure to file a triennial status report, CBP said in a notice.
The CBP Office of Field Operations should take some steps to make sure that air carriers are not carrying high-risk cargo as part of the Air Cargo Advance Screening program, the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General said in a report released May 14. Among the issues found by the OIG were that “CBP did not identify and communicate issues of noncompliance to air carriers,” it said. “In addition, air carriers did not always provide CBP the Flight Departure Messages that contain aircraft departure times necessary to enforce ACAS compliance. CBP prioritized air carrier participation in ACAS over implementing compliance procedures. As a result, air carriers may continue to be noncompliant with program requirements.”
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 12 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 May 13 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 54, No. 18). It contains CBP general notices and recent trade-related court decisions, but no customs ruling notices.