A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Nov. 21, 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://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
CBP issued a final rule extending and amending import restrictions on archaeological material originating in Greece and representing the Upper Paleolithic and Byzantine periods of its cultural heritage, effective Nov. 21 (here). The import restrictions were scheduled to expire Nov. 21.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published its fall 2016 regulatory agenda for CBP (here). The agenda doesn't include any new rulemakings involving trade. Previously listed rulemakings, including on the Centers of Excellence and Expertise and Importer Security Filings, continue to be on the agenda. CBP aims to issue an interim final rules on the CEEs in December (here), it said. The agency said an ISF final rule is also planned for release in December, with an effective date in January (here).
NEW YORK -- CBP issued a request for proposals seeking a private company to collect fines on its behalf, CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske said at the Court of International Trade Judicial Conference on Nov. 21. Once selected, the collection agency will cost nothing to the taxpayer, instead taking a percentage of whatever fines it collects, he said. “Perhaps they’ll do a better job,” he said, noting congressional criticism of CBP’s collection efforts. “I’m not sure,” he said. In any case, CBP will learn about new collection methods and how they work, Kerlikowske said. A CBP official said in July that CBP is going through a procurement process with “multiple vendors” to find a company to collect unpaid antidumping and countervailing duties (see 1607280025).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Nov. 18, 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://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
CBP will extend its pilot allowing for electronic submission and relaxed data requirements for truck shipments from and to Canada that transit the U.S. (see 1604260040), the agency said (here). The truck in-transit manifest pilot was scheduled to end Nov. 27. "Based on an assessment of the pilot and positive feedback from the participating carriers, CBP will extend the pilot for one year, starting November 28, 2016," it said. "The pilot, once extended, will not be open to additional participants at this time. The extension will commence no earlier than November 28, 2016 and will run for twelve months at the following ports: Port Huron, Michigan; Pembina, North Dakota; Blaine, Washington; Portal, North Dakota; Sweetgrass, Montana; and Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan."
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Nov. 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://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP Senior Trade Adviser Maria Luisa Boyce will need to exit the agency or join CBP as a career employee by January as a result of the coming change in presidential administration, a CBP spokeswoman said. Boyce is the sole political appointee specifically focused on trade, according to the most recent list of such appointees from 2012 (here). Boyce mentioned the coming shift briefly at the Nov. 17 Customs Commercial Operations Advisory Committee meeting but didn't say what her plans are.