CBP's Port of Seattle issued a Trade Information Notice soliciting applications to operate a Centralized Examination Station (CES) for the Seattle and Tacoma ports. The solicitation period began Feb. 4 and expires April 4. Public comments are also invited. Email ITTNews@warren-news.com for a copy of TIN No. 13-03.
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Feb. 4. 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 Feb. 3. The corresponding downloadable rulings are now available.
The CBP Regulations and Ruling Division within the Office of International Trade will move office space to 90 K Street, NE, Washington, DC 20229, said CBP. All correspondence for the division , including mailed comments regarding section 1625 modifications or revocations, should be sent to the new address as of Feb. 6, said CBP. The phone number will remain the same, the agency said.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Feb. 1, 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 provided some advice in a CSMS message to air carriers for transferring cargo to a foreign trade zone (FTZ). When cargo is "transferred by the Air Carrier to a DeconsolidatorCFS destined to a [FTZ], the DeconsolidatorCFS must arrive the local transfer from the Air Carrier at the Master Bill Level," said CBP. "The arrival must be transmitted prior to the Electronic Permit To Transfer (EPTT) requested by the [FTZ]. Failure to arrive the local transfer at the Master Bill Level will result in the routing of the local transfer authorization (1F) message for the EPTT requested by the [FTZ] to the Air Carrier and not the DeconsolidatorCFS."
CBP said the Office of International Trade's Regulatory Audit division moved offices and filers of the annual election to average for motor vehicles should send the forms to the new address. The new address for the Regulatory Audit division is 1717 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20229.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Feb. 3 with 160 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 175,765. The most recent ruling is dated 01/31/2013.
An increase in CBP's trade processing and the additions of four new Centers of Excellence and Expertise (CEEs) were among trade issues highlighted by the agency in it's "2012 Fiscal Year in Review." CBP processed more than $2.3 trillion in trade, up 5 percent over FY 2011, "while enforcing U.S. trade laws that protect the economy, health and safety of the American people," it said. CBP also processed "nearly 25 million cargo containers through the nation's ports of entry, up about 4 percent from last year," and conducted nearly 23,000 seizures of goods that violate intellectual property rights, worth $1.2 billion, a 14 percent increase in value over FY 2011, said CBP
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Jan. 31, 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.)