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 May 22, 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 Cotton Campaign, which petitioned CBP to stop imports of goods using cotton from Turkmenistan, celebrated CBP's recently issued Withhold Release Order (see 1805210028). “CBP’s decision is an important step towards ending one the most egregious cases of state-orchestrated forced labor left in the world,” said Eric Gottwald, Legal & Policy director of the International Labor Rights Forum, in a statement in a Cotton Campaign news release. “Now CBP must put the ban into practice by identifying and stopping specific shipments of goods made with Turkmen cotton.”
A Directorate of Defense Trade Controls waiver allowing for the return of Personal Protective Equipment when the equipment wasn't properly declared at the time export expired in March, CBP's Port of New York/Newark Director Adele Fasano said in a May 21 notice. The DDTC waiver, issued March 10, 2014, allowed for uniformed military personnel to reimport one set of body armor, one helmet, or one chemical protective gear, including one additional filter canister, CBP said. Effective immediately, all PPE gear "must be declared, citing the appropriate license or license exemption, via the Electronic Export Information in the Automated Export System (AES) at the time of export" and ACE at the time of import, CBP said. Shipments of PPE "that are identified as not having been properly declared at the time of export or at the time of re-importation, will be detained and referred to DDTC to determine if a violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations has occurred," the agency said.
CBP and the Defense Security Cooperation Agency automated the transfer of Foreign Military Sales (FMS) case information, said CBP's New York/Newark Port Director Adele Fasano in a notice. "Effective May 1, 2018, the DSP-94, the Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOAs), any amendments or modifications no longer have to be lodged with CBP," Fasano said. The LOAs and associated materials from FMS cases issued after 2004 can be returned, it said. "FMS Materials being returned for repair or modifications will be decremented at the time of export with the value of the repairs or modifications," the notice said. "The FMS materials must be properly declared at the time of entry into the United States, citing the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls required data elements, including a properly formatted FMS case identifier, e.g., GB-B-ABC is correct, GBBABC is incorrect. FMS shipments that do not decrement the FMS case properly will be held until the Electronic Export Information (EEI) submission in the Automated Export System (AES) is corrected." The record-keeping requirements for the FMS case are still the responsibility of the FMS country or the freight forwarder handling the shipment, CBP said.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 21, 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:
Supply chain professionals and trade group executives praised the progress U.S. government agencies have made in trade facilitation, and pointed to areas where they could still make progress, during the Global Supply Chain Summit hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on May 22. The Unified Cargo Processing pilot, which is soon expanding from seven ports of entry to nine (see 1803300020), has reduced crossing time by up to 75 percent, according to Lance Jungmeyer, president of the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas. He also talked about how private industry can help CBP be more business friendly, such as with private dollars helping to fund a 3.5-mile shortcut from the Mariposa port of entry in Nogales, Arizona, to the highway. He said they're lobbying CBP to set up a donations acceptance program to build a cold storage inspection facility at a port of entry, too. He said his group would also like to see Canada try unified cargo processing with CBP.
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 May 18, 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.