Several high-ranking CBP officials are slated to speak at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Government conference in Las Vegas Jan. 7-9. CBP speakers include Acting Chief Operating Officer Thomas Winkowski; Chief Information Officer Charles Armstrong, Todd Owen, director of field operation at the Los Angeles Field Office; and Maria Luisa O'Connell, senior advisor to the Commissioner. Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Transportation Security Administration will also speak.
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Dec. 31. 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 issued a memorandum announcing the 2013 tariff preference level (TPL) limit and sublimits for certain U.S.-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) apparel goods that can benefit from cumulation1 using Mexican inputs, as provided for in HTS Chapter 98, Subchapter XXII, U.S. Note 21.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Dec. 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 http://1.usa.gov/VxGCVA. (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 a Dec. 31 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.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Dec. 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 http://1.usa.gov/VxGCVA. (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 a memorandum on the 2013 tariff rate quotas for agricultural products described in HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter XI, U.S. Notes 4 through 17 (excluding Notes 12 and 13), on the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement (UCFTA, or CFTA).
CBP's initiatives in addressing trade procedures during the eight-day work stoppage at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach helped reduce related delays, said the American Apparel and Footwear Association in a letter to CBP Deputy Commissioner David Aguilar. Due to CBP's "rapid response when the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach work stoppage came to an end, the vessel backlog from the strike was able to be cleared quickly and efficiently, and ill effects on the supply chain were capped before they could get worse, said the AAFA. "With the December 29 contract expiration looming in our East and Gulf Coast ports, [CBP] has taken great steps in distributing guidance for diverted or anchored vessels in the case of a strike."
CBP issued a memorandum on the 2013 duty-free U.S.-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) tariff preference level for certain non-originating Nicaragua apparel of cotton or man-made fiber (MMF), or subject to cotton or MMF restraints, as provided for in HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter XV, U.S. Note 15.
CBP posted a Dec. 26 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.