The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Dec. 17 with 23 rulings. The most recent ruling is dated Dec. 6.
CBP is issuing a "blanket" authorization to allow the release of most types of merchandise on or after Dec. 17 through Dec. 31 under Immediate Delivery (ID) procedures, it said in a CSMS message. Many entry filers make regular use of ID procedures for fresh fruits and vegetables and other merchandise from Mexico and Canada, etc.
The National Marine Fisheries Service and CBP will use a period of "informed compliance" starting Dec. 31 for entries of shrimp and abalone required to include data for the NMFS Seafood Import Monitoring (SIM) Program, CBP said in a CSMS message. "Entries will be audited, inspected, and verified for the “informed compliance” with the SIM rule starting December 31, 2018 to March 1, 2019," CBP said. "However, entries of only shrimp and abalone tariff codes [in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule] (HTS) will not be rejected if their SIM data is omitted." That period is meant to help the trade "work through any inadvertent, unintentional, or technical or concerns that may have precluded their being fully prepared to successfully submit SIM data for shrimp and/or abalone with the Entry," it said. Starting March 1, "entries that do not comply with the mandatory SIM message set requirements, including shrimp and abalone, will be refused entry," it said. A NMFS final rule issued in April said that as of Dec. 31, shrimp and abalone importers would be required to file harvest and landing data at the time of entry in ACE (see 1804230037).
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 Dec. 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.
Due to "limitations within automatic quota processing when quota and trade remedy conditions overlap," CBP will require manual input by the agency in some cases, CBP said in a Dec. 17 CSMS message. Manual processing is needed when "a quota entry summary line has three or more Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) codes (e.g., if the line is properly classified with two chapter 99 HTS codes (a section 301 HTS and a quota HTS) and the commodity HTS)," it said. Manual processing is also necessary when "the primary HTS code is not subject to quota but the secondary HTS is subject to quota (e.g., if the line is properly classified with two HTS codes: a section 301 HTS and a non-trade remedy quota HTS)."
CBP is awaiting Federal Register publication of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative notice delaying increased Section 301 tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods (see 1809180016). While the USTR posted the coming notice (see 1812140034), CBP confirmed it would wait to make changes in ACE until the notice is formally published in the Federal Register. The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America noted in an email to members that there's been some confusion "when customs brokers who transmit entries early for shipments arriving after January 1 notice that CBP's system applies a 25% tariff rate for these products." Brokers should be aware that "10% will be the correct duty rate on January 1, but CBP's system will nevertheless show a duty rate of 25% until official notification is published," NCBFAA said.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Dec. 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:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: