CBP should develop a better monitoring system to ensure compliance with the agency’s license verification policy for imported radiological materials, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Jan. 10. "Tens of thousands of shipments containing radiological material -- which terrorists could use to make a dirty bomb -- enter the U.S. each year through airports across the country," the GAO said. "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and some states issue licenses for import and possession of the material," and CBP is responsible for verifying shipments entering the country are authorized.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Jan. 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 http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
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 Jan. 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 http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP is seeking comments by March 9, 2018, on an existing information collection for petitions for remission or mitigation of forfeitures and penalties incurred, 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 is seeking comments by March 9, 2018, on an existing information collection for applications for allowance in duties for damaged or defective merchandise, 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 seized more than 1,200 counterfeit stainless steel sinks at the Portal, North Dakota, Port of Entry, the agency said in a new release. CBP made the seizures after examination of the sinks, which were in a rail container, showed trademark infringement, it said. The goods have an aggregate manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $944,512, the agency said.
CBP published the quarterly Internal Revenue Service interest rates used to calculate interest on overdue accounts (underpayments) and refunds (overpayments) of customs duties in a notice. For the quarter that began Jan. 1 and ends March 31, 2018, the interest rates for overpayments will be 3 percent for corporations and 4 percent for non-corporations, and the rate for underpayments will be 4 percent for both corporations and non-corporations. These interest rates are subject to change for the calendar quarter beginning April 1 and ending June 30, 2018, CBP said.
CBP completed its deployment of ACE statements over the Jan. 6-7 weekend, it said in a CSMS message. “CBP was able to verify that the ACE Statements system started successfully processing and transmitting responses back to trade,” it said. The agency has “been keeping a close eye on things,” having mostly resolved “some issues that fell out of the deployment,” and is monitoring others that are not yet fixed, John Everett of CBP’s Trade Transformation Office said during a call the afternoon of Jan. 8. CBP ran its first ACE daily statements just after midnight on Jan. 8, and “had a couple of challenges but got all the statements out,” Jim Byram of CBP’s Office of Information Technology said during the call. Some filers applied the ACE changes one day earlier than they should have, and as a result received “strange amounts” on their Jan. 7 statements, he said. “If you see something weird, that may be a reason why,” Byram said.