CBP issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Nov. 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:
Dairy license holders’ DAIRIES accounts are not automatically being decremented for entries subject to Section 301 tariffs on goods from the European Union, the Cheese Importers Association of America said, citing the Foreign Agricultural Service. “In order to resolve this issue, license holders should direct their brokers to contact CBP at HQQUOTA@cbp.dhs.gov to have CBP manually post the affected entries in the quota system and have the entries reflected in the DAIRIES system,” CIAA said. “Brokers should be prepared to share the following information with CBP about affected entries: Entry Number, Line Number, License Number, CO Origin, Quantity, and HTS Number.” CBP sent out a CSMS message on the issue Nov. 6 (see 1911060009).
CBP continues to look at the “subsidiary factors” when reviewing country of origin under the Trade Agreements Act despite a 2016 Court of International Trade decision that discounted the use of such factors in substantial transformation analysis, Sheppard Mullin lawyers said in a Nov. 25 blog post. The CIT case, which found an Energizer military flashlight to be of Chinese origin under TAA, “reasoned all the imported components retained their individual names and material composition or shape as a result of the post-importation assembly process,” they said in the blog post. Even though “substantial transformation appears to be more of an uphill battle than ever before, CBP still is relying heavily upon those 'subsidiary factors' that were disfavored in Energizer,” the lawyers said.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP is requesting comments by Dec. 27 on an existing information collection for declaration of owner, it said in a notice. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection without a change to the burden hours or information collected.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated with eight more rulings on Nov. 25. The following additional headquarters ruling (see 1911250017) involving carriers was modified on Nov. 25, according to CBP:
The 2019 annual user fee of $147.89 for each customs broker district permit and national permit held by an individual, partnership, association or corporation is due by Jan. 31, 2020, CBP said in a notice. If a broker fails to pay the annual user fee by the published due date, the appropriate port director will notify the broker in writing of the failure to pay and will revoke the permit to operate. The 2019 fee represents an increase from last year's user fee of $144.74, as previously announced (see 1908010021).
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 Nov. 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: