A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website April 29, 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.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated April 26 (here) with 36 rulings. The most recent ruling is dated 04/26/16.
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association recently posted to its website presentations from its annual conference held April 18-20 in Tucson, Ariz. The presentations (here) cover the following topics:
CBP will test automation and prepayment of commercial truck single-crossing fees as part of an effort to eliminate cash and credit card collections, the agency said in a notice (here). "The automation and prepayment option for the single-crossing user fee will reduce wait times, improve primary processing, save costs to truck carriers associated with idling time (such as gas and lost driving hours), and alleviate CBP officers of the administrative functions pertaining to the collection, accounting and transmittal of user fee collections," the agency said.
Correction: Lisa Gelsomino, CEO of Avalon Risk Management, is the co-chair of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee Trade Enforcement and Revenue Collection Subcommittee (see 1604280016).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
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 April 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 http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
Cynthia Whittenburg is now acting deputy assistant commissioner in CBP's Office of Trade, said CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske during the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting on April 27. Whittenburg takes over for Sandra Bell, who recently retired, said Kerlikowske.
As progress continues on ACE and the International Trade Data System, the conversation is shifting to "what we're going to be able to see stemming from this new major IT capability," said Christa Brzozowski, Department of Homeland Security deputy assistant secretary, Trade Policy, Foreign Investment and Transport Security. The government will be looking for ways to "institutionalize" the gains made and "embed these principles and policies at the national level," she said at the April 27 meeting of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC).