A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website May 28, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of May 28. This report 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.
Personnel from the FDA New York District Office will no longer be stationed at Building 77 of JFK International Airport in Jamaica, N.Y., starting June 17, said CBP in a CSMS message. Instead, a mail slot identified for FDA will be made available for the submission of paper entry documents, which have declined in volume over the last several months due to the ITACS system. Documents will be picked up daily from Monday to Friday at noon, excluding holidays.
CBP posted a May 28 version of its CF 1400 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Entrances) electronic query report of the Vessel Management System (VMS), in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by entrances. CBP also posted a version of its CF 1401 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Clearances) electronic query report of the VMS, in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by clearances.
CBP officers at the El Paso, Texas Port of Entry discovered and seized 895 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated street value of $716,000, from a tractor trailer at the Ysleta commercial crossing from Mexico on May 22, said CBP in a press release. CBP found the drugs among 14 sacks of marble powder calcium carbonate while examining the vehicle and scanning it with an X-ray system, which identified “a number of anomalies in the shipment,” the agency said. The investigation is ongoing and no arrests have yet been made, said CBP.
CBP issued a notice of final determination on May 21 for the country of origin of Ricoh Aficio Monochrome Laser Printers for purposes of procurement by the U.S. government under Federal Acquisition Regulations. CBP said it reached this final determination based on presented facts, which indicated that the monochrome laser printers were assembled from parts made in China, Japan, and the Philippines, but was assembled and substantially transformed in the U.S. The manufacture of individual parts (subassemblies), such as the duplex unit and engine board, took place in other countries during initial stages of the production process. However, these basic subassemblies only resulted in an “incomplete and non-functional printer engine” and did not require “sophisticated skills or expensive machinery.”
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website May 24, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
CBP has posted the fiscal year 2013 preliminary Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (commonly referred to as the Byrd Amendment) amounts available as of April 30 which provides information on the amounts available to disburse by case.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated May 24 with 106 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 177,579. The most recent ruling is dated 05/24/2013.
It's the pacifier, not the pacifier clip, the gives a pacifier clip set its essential character, CBP said in a May 14 ruling (here). The set, which includes a pacifier and a pacifier clip that is stuffed and looks like a sleepy cow, was the subject of a request by Sassy to CBP for a binding ruling on the tariff classification. Sassy's lawyer, Donna Shira from Sharretts, Paley, said the clip and pacifier set should be classified based on the clip, which gives the set its essential character. Therefore, the set should be classified as a toy of heading 9503, said Sassy.