Federal authorities at a Los Angeles International Airport express cargo consignment facility interdicted more than a hundred shipments containing suspected counterfeit goods in stepped-up enforcement actions as part of Operation Holiday Hoax, an international effort targeting the importation and distribution of counterfeit and pirated products, said CBP in a press release.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Dec. 13, 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 Los Angeles will be conducting a trade forum on importing requirements for wood and wood products on Feb. 13 at the Port of Long Beach, it said in a public bulletin. The presentation will be conducted by the CBP National Import Specialist for wood products and by CBP agriculture specialist. The program will cover topics including:
In response to an Office of Management and Budget mandate, CBP is migrating all public facing applications behind a Trusted Internet Gateway (TIC), it said in CSMS message # 12-000565. The ACE application is one of the public facing CBP applications that will be migrating to the TIC, said CBP. Migration of the ACE application will consist of a change in the public IP currently associated with the ACE URL, it said.
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. 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://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.)
Port code 3382 (Casper, Wyo.) is now inactive for CBP transactions, CBP said in a CSMS message. All CBP transactions should be filed using port code 3332, said CBP. This change aligns port operations with 19 CFR 101.3.
CBP issued a CSMS message announcing the issuance of Harmonized System Update 1210 on changes to the 2012 Harmonized Tariff Schedule. This update contains 39,623 ABI records and 6,726 harmonized tariff records. The modifications, effective Jan. 1, include the annual special program staged rate reductions, it said. The changes were made as a result of the 484(f) Committee, the Committee for Statistical Annotation of Tariff Schedules. Adjustments required by the verification of the 2012 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) are also included. The modified records are currently available to all ABI participants and can be retrieved electronically via the procedures indicated in the CATAIR. Contact Jennifer Keeling via email at Jennifer.Keeling@dhs.gov for all other questions.
CBP posted items agreed upon during the Dec. 4 meeting of the Advisory Committee for Commercial Operations (COAC), including a set of recommendations from the COAC Subcommittees on the Role of the Broker and Trade Facilitation regarding the increased reliance on Centers for Excellence and Expertise (CEEs).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Dec. 11, 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.)