The Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach and the Base Metals Center of Excellence and Expertise will hold a seminar on "Steel Identification, Classification and Trade Law" on Aug. 7 and 8, CBP said in a July 10 notice. The seminar, which will include presentations from technical, commercial and legal experts from the industry, is meant to "increase the knowledge level" for government officials and customs brokers "regarding steel importations," it said. This seminar "has been significantly modified, revised and restructured from previous seminars," to include "new material on fraud, circumvention and evasion, plus expanded information on current issues," it said.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP released its July 5 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 52, No. 27), which includes the following ruling actions:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 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 issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
A renewal of the charter for the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee to CBP was approved by the secretaries of the Treasury and Homeland Security, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice. The renewed charter is effective May 15, 2018, and expires May 15, 2020.
CBP updated its ACE Entry Summary business rules and processes document with changes to the quota section and other parts of the document. "Numerous significant revisions have been made to the quota section of this document and language explaining how absolute quota works in ACE has been added to the section," CBP said. Other revisions were made to the sections on temporary importation bonds, reconciliation, warehouse entries and withdrawals, and collections, according to the change log.
CBP posted the agenda for the 2018 Trade Symposium scheduled to take place in Atlanta Aug. 14-15.
CBP will flag two more Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes in ACE at the request of the National Marine Fisheries Service, CBP said in a CSMS message. The codes -- 0304.49.0190 (Fish fillets and other fish meat (whether or not minced), fresh, chilled or frozen (90 = Other)) and 0304.87.0000 (Tunas, non-specific fillet frozen (of the genus Thunnus), skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito (Euthynnus or Katsuwonus pelamis)) -- will be flagged as NM5, it said. That flag means that specific Highly Migratory Species information may be required by NMFS. "Because these codes are 'general' in their description, a disclaimer will be allowed for the HMS program for the NM5 flag if the codes are being used for product that is not fresh Bluefin tuna (or is not other product that is covered the NMFS HMS program, primarily Bluefin tuna or swordfish)," CBP said.
Special agents in ICE's Homeland Security Investigations seized 181,000 counterfeit items, estimated to be worth $42.9 million if the products were real, as part of an operation in Laredo, Texas, the agency said in a news release. In June, the ICE agents "conducted surveillance over a three-day period and observed boxes containing suspected counterfeit merchandise being moved," it said. "During the enforcement action, HSI discovered that all shipping labels on all the boxes depicted fictitious delivery addresses in Laredo. HSI confirmed the boxes contained counterfeit merchandise and detained the boxes."