A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Jan. 23, 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 Winter 2013 issue of its Frontline magazine, CBP's quarterly magazine on border security.
CBP updated its requirements for electronic in-bond movement authorization (1D) freight status notification (FSN) messages that are transmitted to the Air AMS participant in custody of the cargo to include air in-bond, said CBP in a CSMS message.
CBP for Field Operations at the Port of New York/Newark reissued an Informational Pipeline to provide instructions to the importing community on how to obtain relief through the administrative refund process at the time of request for the deletion/cancellation of an entry. On May 5, 2008, the New York Field Office issued Informational Pipeline 08-005 regarding deletion/cancellation procedures for ABI certified entries. A reissue of that pipeline was requested at the JFK Airport quarterly brokers meeting, said CBP.
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. 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 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. 22. 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.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Jan. 21. The corresponding downloadable rulings are now available.
CBP issued a final rule making technical corrections and clarifying how the agency collects user fees for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service from commercial trucks. The Jan. 24 Federal Register notice clarifies that transponders have replaced decals for commercial truck user fees and notes that the online system for obtaining transponders and decals was renamed the Decal and Transponder Online Procurement System. CBP also said the decal system, part of which was run by a private bank under contract, is now run completely by the agency.
CBP posted links to several power point presentations made during the C-TPAT conference in Washington Jan. 8-10. While some of the links weren't working as of press time, the presentations posted were: