The recent delay in CBP posting its Customs Bulletins is due to problems with the Government Printing Office providing the documents without satisfying disability accessibility requirements, the GPO said. CBP is unable to post the versions of the bulletins because government documents are supposed comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended in 1998. It requires "Federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology (EIT) accessible to people with disabilities.” Work is ongoing to resolve the problems.
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. 9, 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 a Nov. 13 CSMS message with "guidance for the entry filing of imports of steel mill articles and aluminum products granted relief, under section 232." CBP said "ACE is programmed to process imports granted relief from quantitative limits" and listed HTS subheadings for imported goods subject to an exclusion. "Failure to follow these instructions may result in the quota exemption not processing and the entry being rejected," CBP said.
CBP is delaying the final transition date in ACE for moving customs brokers to national permits by one year until August 2020, it said in an updated deployment schedule posted to its website. The agency is also delaying the scheduled deployment date for certain Generalized System of Preferences fixes by several months, from December 2018 to March 2019, CBP said. The updated schedule no longer includes scheduled deployments for a vessel agent account type, which would have allowed payment of maritime processing fees online, or non-intrusive inspection program related improvements, which were set to modernize the entrance and clearance process in the truck environment using the Multi-Energy Portal imaging system (see 1809240020). Finally, CBP set a concrete deployment date of Feb. 9 for its upcoming ACE Form 5106 input process and unique identifiers for the Centers of Excellence and Expertise. A September version of the schedule had said they’d be deployed in February 2019.
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. 8, covering Nov. 6-8, 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 extending the comment period to Dec. 10 for an existing information collection about transfers of cargo to container stations, it said in a notice. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the information collected or to the estimated burden hours associated with the collection.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP updated its guidance on how importers of goods excluded from Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum can file entries and receive refunds, it said in a Nov. 8 CSMS message. The message includes information related to the change in policy allowing for product exclusions to apply starting on the day a request was filed with the Department of Commerce (see 1809040035), rather than the day the request was posted for public comment. "To request an administrative refund for previous imports of duty-excluded products granted by DOC, importers may file a [Post Summary Correction (PSC)] and provide the product exclusion number in the Importer Additional Declaration Field," CBP said. "If the entry has already liquidated, importers may protest the liquidation."