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APHIS Now Accepting Electronic Phytosanitary Certificates
March 30, 2020 |Customs

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and CBP will now “accept electronically produced versions of phytosanitary certificates” for imported plants and plant products, CBP said in a CSMS message. “Importers and brokers may upload the electronic documents to the Automated Commercial Environment using the Document Imaging System or provide them by other means, such as email attachments,” it said. “Acceptable phytosanitary certificates include scanned copies of original certificates, electronic certificates created through a participating country’s ePhyto system, or signed paper forms. Certificates should be legible and include APHIS-required statements. In addition, we will allow precleared consignments to be accompanied by an email from APHIS Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) with an electronic copy of PPQ Form 203 attached, if the original form is not available,” APHIS said.

Topics:Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
CBP May Suspend Regular Duty Collections
March 30, 2020 |Customs

CBP may still suspend some duty collections (see 2003280001), according to a person knowledgeable about the discussions. The Wall Street Journal said in a March 27 report that duty collections would be deferred for three months, though President Donald Trump called the report “fake news.” The person said that there are multiple options being looked at and the plans are not yet finalized. One such option includes limiting the deferrals to regular duties, taxes and fees, and not trade remedies, such as the Section 301 tariffs and antidumping or countervailing duties, the person said. While the specifics are still being discussed, the action may come in the form of an executive order or Federal Register notice, the person said.

Topics:Customs duty, Trump tariffs
CBP AD and CV Messages as of March 27
March 27, 2020 |Customs

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 27 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 Clarifies Requirements for Deferred Payments
March 27, 2020 |Customs

CBP provided some more payment information in a CSMS message for importers that deferred duty payments while the agency briefly allowed for such deferrals (see 2003260047). All payments deferred during that time period will need to be addressed by March 27, it said. Also, “if ACH Debit Authorizations were stopped by your financial institution, FedWire should be used to submit payments for amounts owed between 3/20/2020 and 3/26/2020 as CBP is not able to re-debit your account.”

CBP AD and CV Messages as of March 25
March 26, 2020 |Customs

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 25 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.