CBP seized more than a million pounds of pork coming from China at the New York City area ports last week, an agency spokesman said in an email. "The million-pounds of pork is the largest agricultural seizure in the U.S.," according to CBP's director of New York field operations, Troy Miller. "More than 100 Customs and Border Protection agricultural specialists and canines from the Department of Agriculture worked to uncover the prohibited food. The pork was smuggled, from China, in various different ways including in ramen noodle bowls to Tide detergent." The seizures occurred over African swine fever concerns, the CBP spokesman said. Reuters reported there are new worries about the spread of ASF after Vietnam reported its first cases of the virus in February.
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 March 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.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated March 15 with 94 rulings. The most recent ruling is dated March 12.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP posted a set of frequently asked questions on March 14 about the updated Form 5106 (Importer Create/Update Identity form). The FAQs were compiled from inquiries during a March 7 webinar about the form, CBP said. CBP will deploy the new 5106 in ACE March 16-17, despite some readiness concerns raised by the trade (see 1903110037).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 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 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 March 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 is seeking comments by May 10 on an existing information collection for user fees, it said in a notice. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection by 60 days with no change to the information collected or to the estimated burden hours associated with the collection.