Several government officials involved in trade will speak at the U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel (USA-ITA) annual conference Jan. 9 in New York, the association said in a press release. CBP Assistant Commissioner Al Gina will provide the lunch keynote, while Consumer Products Safety Commissioner Nancy Nord will do the regulatory issues keynote, said USA-ITA. Additional speakers include Kim Glas, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Textiles and Apparel at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and John Leonard, Acting Executive Director of Trade Policy & Programs at 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 Dec. 17, 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. 17 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.
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Dec. 17. 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 that the 2013 tariff rate quota for milk and cream, fluid or frozen, fresh or sour, provided for in Chapter 4, Additional U.S. Note 5 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule will open on January 2, 2013 with a low-duty quantity of 6,694,840 liters.
CBP issued a memorandum saying the 2013 preliminary low-duty tariff rate quota limit for tuna and skipjack, in airtight containers, not in oil, in containers, weighing with their contents not over 7 kg each, is 15,843,092 kg.
CBP's Office of Information and Technology has posted an updated list of companies/persons offering ABI data processing services to the trade community.
Due to the elimination of absolute quotas under recent changes to informal entry regulations, articles classified in several HTS sections and chapters won't require formal entry if the value is in excess of $250, said CBP in a CSMS message. CBP is in the process of updating is ACS systems, it said. Affected sections and chapters are:
The transition from ACS to ACE M1 created a discrepancy with how ACE matches the names of importers and consignees appearing on inward vessel manifests for which confidential treatment for inward vessel shipments was granted, said CBP in CSMS message. That issue has been resolved and CBP has implemented a technical fix to ACE’s name-matching function, the agency said. CBP also recreated the data extracts and made them available to subscribers so that they can update their own sites to remove any confidential information that may have been inadvertently released.