The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated on Feb. 19. The following headquarters rulings not involving carriers were modified on Feb. 18, according to CBP:
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 Feb. 14 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 added on Jan. 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. Filers of imported products that were granted an exclusion (see 2001020035) should report the regular Chapters 4, 40, 42, 44, 54, 55, 56, 58, 73, 76, 79, 82, 84, 85, 87, 90 and 94 Harmonized Tariff Schedule number, as well as subheading 9903.88.37, CBP said in the message. “Importers shall not submit the corresponding Chapter 99 HTS number for the Section 301 duties when” subheading 9903.88.37 is submitted, CBP said.
CBP's treatment of goods from foreign-trade zones that are subject to the recently decreased Section 301 tariffs should go through a notice a comment process because it amounts to a change in policy, the National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones said in a Feb. 18 letter to the agency. “The 'level playing field' (i.e., providing U.S. FTZs and bonded warehouses equal Customs duty treatment), is a fundamental [principle] of U.S. law governing FTZs, has always been protected in the current Trade Remedy environment,” it said. A lawyer for the NAFTZ recently explained the arguments and said the letter was coming (see 2002120011).
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 Feb. 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 imposed restrictions on imports of archaeological and ethnological material from Ecuador, the agency said in a final rule. The restrictions were effective as of Feb. 12 and will remain in place until May 22, 2024.
CBP created Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2001 on Feb. 13, containing 12,922 Automated Broker Interface records and 2,380 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records, it said in a CSMS message. The update includes the Section 301 tariff decrease for goods on list 4A (see 2001160019) and the expanded Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum goods, it said. It also includes recently released Section 301 tariff exclusions (see 2002030008).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Feb. 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: