A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Sept. 20, 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 CBP's ADCVD Search page.
CBP created Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2227 Sept. 19, containing 75 ABI records and 18 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. The changes involve an adjustment of the optional column one country HTS pairings when the country of origin is Russia, it said in a CSMS message.
CBP “targeted” 838 entries valued at over $266.5 million in August for suspected use of forced labor in the production of imported goods, the agency said in its monthly operational update, released Sept. 19. The agency did not specify what proportion of that were goods subject to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act as opposed to withhold release orders. Statistics on forced labor imports were not included in CBP’s July update.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Sept. 19, 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 CBP's ADCVD Search page.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Sept. 16, 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 CBP's ADCVD Search page.
CBP released on Sept. 19 the quarterly Internal Revenue Service interest rates used to calculate interest on overdue accounts (underpayments) and refunds (overpayments) of customs duties. For the quarter to begin Oct. 1, the interest rates for overpayments will be 5% for corporations and 6% for non-corporations, and the interest rate for underpayments is 6% for both corporations and non-corporations. That's up from 4%, 5% and 5% in the previous quarter, respectively (see 2207010031). These interest rates are subject to change for the following quarter, CBP said.
In the Sept. 14 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 56, No. 36), CBP published a proposal to revoke a ruling on fashion show items.
CBP’s final rule creating a continuing education requirement for customs brokers is in the “stretch run,” with the regulations written and in the initial stages of review with CBP’s Office of Trade, said John Leonard, deputy assistant commissioner-trade at CBP, in remarks Sept. 19. The final rule only has to be signed by the secretary of homeland security, which will make for a quicker process than for CBP rules that also have to be signed by the treasury secretary, said Leonard, speaking at a National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America conference.