A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website June 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 CBP's ADD CVD Search page.
CBP’s April 2022 customs broker license exam had a 39.6% pass rate, which is “relatively high compared to past examinations,” according to a document posted by CBP for the June 29 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee meeting. Despite having offered the exam remotely for its April and October 2021 exams, the April 2022 exam was only offered at on-site testing centers, the document said. CBP is “committed to bringing back the remote exam option,” and is currently looking at lessons from its two previous exams for future implementation, Brandon Lord, CBP deputy executive director-trade policy & programs, said at the meeting.
CBP is “super, super close” to getting Office of Management and Budget approval to expand its global business identifier (GBI) pilot beyond nine participants, said Gail Kan, acting executive director-trade policy and programs at CBP (see 2201120015). “I can almost taste it, the moment that OMB is going to sign off on our test to allow all participants from the trade to participate, and not just nine,” she said at the June 29 meeting of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee.
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 June 27, 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 ADD CVD Search page.
The Treasury Department published its fall 2022 regulatory agenda for CBP. The only new mention of any regulations is a return to the agenda for a final rule that would "create a procedure for the disclosure of information otherwise protected by the Trade Secrets Act to a trademark owner when merchandise bearing suspected counterfeit trademarks has been voluntarily abandoned." CBP issued the underlying proposal in 2019 (see 1908260040), and the final rule had been on Treasury's regulatory agenda for 2020 and spring of 2021 before moving to the long-term actions category in the most recent agenda.
CBP wants to develop incentives for green trade, possibly by reviewing authorized economic operator programs, and said that its initial green trade strategy, published June 28, is not the limit of its aspirations. "The goal is to identify incentives that aim to reduce carbon emissions, encourage the use of eco-friendly modes of transport, and support adoption of technologies and practices with positive environmental impacts. Incentives would encourage green trade practices while avoiding negative impacts on the flow of legitimate cargo," the strategy says.
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 June 24, 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 ADD CVD Search page.
CBP created Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2214 on June 24, containing 12 Automated Broker Interface records and two Harmonized Tariff Schedule records, it said in a CSMS message. The update includes changes to two Agricultural Marketing Service indicators for the AMS PGA Message Set, CBP said.