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 Aug. 6 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 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 Aug. 5 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 Aug. 7 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 53, No. 27). While it does not contain any customs rulings, it contains CBP general notices and Court of International Trade opinions.
CBP updated its informed compliance publication on "importations contrary to law" to add some new mitigating and aggravating factors. New to the mitigating factors is "clear documentation of remedial measures undertaken to prevent future violations." The aggravating factors now include "several violations in the same transaction (e.g., violations of laws and/or regulations of multiple agencies in the same shipment" and that "the petitioner exhibits a pattern of disregard for its responsibilities under U.S. import laws and regulations."
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Aug. 2 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 issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The ICE Homeland Security Investigations Global Trade Investigations Division partnered with Liberty Shared, "a nongovernmental organization with global coverage founded in Hong Kong, to combat forced labor in global commerce," ICE said in a news release. "By using its unique authorities, and by partnering with organizations like Liberty Shared with information about corporate supply chains and financial flows, HSI seeks to gather information that will lead to successful prosecutions and significant steps being made in eliminating forced labor," the agency said. "By eliminating the financial draw of using forced labor, and any profit to be made by the exploitation of human beings to produce goods for market, HSI seeks to have a positive impact on reducing forced labor." The NGO has built a "global infrastructure to support the protection of vulnerable people with many partners in civil society, banking/finance, the legal industry, information service and technology providers," ICE said.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Aug. 5. The most recent ruling is dated Aug. 2. The following headquarters rulings not involving carriers were "modified" on Aug. 5, according to CBP: