CBP is expected to publish a Federal Register notice announcing an export manifest pilot program in "coming weeks," said Elizabeth Merritt, director of cargo services at Airlines for America. Merritt, who also co-chairs the trade subcommittee within the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations export committee, spoke during the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America Government Affairs Conference on Sept. 15. CBP has said it "is developing automated export manifest functionality for all modes of transportation" and "will be rolled out as pilots over the next year pending publication of final regulation changes removing paper filing as an option and allowing for electronic filing" (here). Export manifest work has progressed in recent months to look at the processes involved, she said. That has allowed the subcommittee to develop some more "detailed" solutions, said Merritt.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Sept. 11, 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.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Sept. 10, 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 is working to fix an internal problem so that this month's importer security filing reports for sureties are available, the agency said. "This issue did not impact filer and importer ISF reports as they have all been uploaded to the ACE portal," said CBP.
CBP posted a fact sheet describing the planned Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program for exporters. CBP recently posted a list of exporter eligibility requirements for participation in C-TPAT (see 14070921).
CBP released its Sept. 10 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 48, No. 36). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent Court of International Trade decisions.
A notice of proposed rulemaking for the Air Cargo Advance Screening is expected in the spring, though some new concerns have apparently arisen, said the Airforwarders Association (AfA). Although CBP extended the ongoing ACAS pilot program in July (see 14072515), the rulemaking has been in the works for some time. There may be a new wrinkle, though, as there's been some industry support for a “progressive filing model” that "would require forwarders to take more of a role in export filing" instead of the airlines, the AfA said. This "would result in fines associated with incorrect data passing onto the forwarder," it said.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Sept. 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 http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Sept. 8. This report (here) includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, and tobacco; and certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying textile articles and/or other articles; the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc.