A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Jan. 30, 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 posted some new documents to its Office of Congressional Affairs website. The agency posted a fact sheet describing the organization, personnel and contact information for that office. The fact sheet is (here). It also posted instructions for Congressional members passing along constituent issues. That document is (here).
CBP reminded importers that the period for Food and Drug Administration food facility registration renewal ends Jan. 31. Beginning Feb. 1, if a foreign food facility is required to register with the Food and Drug Administration, but fails to do so, food from that facility that is being imported or offered for import into the U.S. is subject to import refusal. Food facility registrations (FFRs) that are not renewed by Jan. 31 will be subject to invalidation of registration and could result in food shipments manufactured by those facilities without valid registrations to be held at the port or refused upon arrival in the U.S., said CBP in a CSMS message.
In the Jan. 30 issue of the CBP Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 6), CBP issued a notice detailing the dates and draft agenda for the 50th Session of the World Customs Organization's Harmonized System Committee, which will meet in Brussels on March 6-15.
CBP released its Jan. 30 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 6). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent general notices and Court of International Trade decisions and a draft agenda for the World Customs Organization's Harmonized System Committee.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Jan. 29, 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 Jan. 29. 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.
CBP posted updated details on how to apply to participate in its reconciliation prototype and the necessary requirements for providing a copy of a reconciliation rider to continuous bond. The agency said if a Reconciliation "participant changes their continuous bond, copies of the replacement continuous bond, as well as a copy of the new bond rider need to be provided to the HQ Reconciliation team" and that "CBP has advised that failure to provide the Reconciliation rider may lead to insufficiency of the continuous importer bond." CBP said it would immediately render any continuous importer bond insufficient when that bond is being used in conjunction with Reconciliation entries but the required Reconciliation rider has not been provided to CBP.
CBP provided a list of various Trade Transformation goals the agency is working toward in 2013. The list was part of a CBP document outlining the agencies 2012 accomplishments on Trade Transformation.