CBP's Office of Field Operations "endorsed the reaffirmation of agriculture reimbursable overtime to facilitate trade (Ag ROT), while being reimbursed for agriculture service," said the Port of San Francisco in a information notice. As of June 1, CBP will offer the reimbursable overtime, "which will be worked exclusively by CBP Agriculture Specialists," the notice said. Any requests will be made "in accordance with port policy and CBP will require reimbursable overtime payment in accordance with existing regulations."

CBP stopped 2,400 pounds of marijuana hidden in a shipment of jalapenos, the agency said. After a CBP dog alerted officers in Nogales, Arizona to the presence of drugs in the trailer, they found 105 bales of marijuana, worth more than $1.2 million, the agency said.

Cuprammonium rayon filament yarns recently added to the list of items not available in commercial quantities in a timely manner under Appendix 4-B-1 of the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (see 14041715) may be imported as a short supply item as of April 18, said CBP in a memo to port directors and office of field operations. The filament yarns, which are classified in Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 5403.39, can be entered under heading 9920.95.00 as long as the goods meet the requirements of Note 5 of Chapter 99, subchapter XX, said the memo. Such goods are subject to quantitative limits and must be entered according to QB 14-131 (here), said CBP.

CBP released its May 14 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 48, No. 19). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent Court of International Trade decisions and general notices.

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 12, 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 May 12. 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.

Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated May 8 with 82 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 181,983. The most recent ruling is dated 05/07/14.

In the May 7 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 48, No. 18), CBP published a notice that proposes to modify and revoke rulings and similar treatment for the tariff classification of wooden storage benches.

CBP issued a fraud warning for rough diamond trade from Sierra Leone, Ghana and Guinea. The agency has come across several scams involving fake Kimberley Process Certificates over the past year, it said. "Fake certificates numbered Sierra Leone 004199, issued April or May 2014, have been presented to prospective diamond purchasers in the past three weeks. "Diamond traders and business community members are also urged to be alert to the circulation of the fake certificate," the agency said. The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme is a certification-of-origin system in which governments from 76 diamond-producing and -processing countries work together with the diamond industry to prevent the trade in conflict diamonds.

CBP New York/Newark released statistics in a pipeline notice showing the "cycle time measurement" of Centralized Examination Stations from January through March. The cycle times refer to the time from ocean container arrival, as transmitted via the Automated Commercial Environment, through final examination completion release date.