A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 4, 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 is extending the comment period until July 6 on an existing information collection for customs declarations. CBP proposes (here) to extend the expiration date of this information collection without a change to the burden hours or information collected.
The National Marine Fisheries Service announced it will soon begin a pilot to test filing in the Automated Commercial Environment (here). The pilot will test filing of both partner government agency (PGA) message set data elements and scanned images in the Document Imaging System (DIS) for three NMFS programs: the Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Program, which includes tuna and swordfish; the Antarctic Marine Living Resources (AMLR) program, which covers toothfish (Dissostichus species); and the NOAA Tuna Tracking and Verification Program (NOAA Form 370), which covers a variety of canned, frozen, pouched and other processed tuna but not fresh tuna. The joint NMFS-CBP pilot will begin “after July 1,” said the announcement.
In the May 27 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 21) (here), CBP published notices that propose to revoke or modify a ruling and similar treatment for the marking of country of origin of wristwatches.
CBP will be keeping a close eye on testing of the Automated Commercial Environment and will be conducting targeted outreach to test specific scenarios as its Nov. 1 deadline approaches, an agency spokeswoman told International Trade Today in response to questions on how the postponement of ACE implementation until Oct. 31 for several quota-related entry types affects the agency’s approach. The delay leaves only one day for live filing before ACE becomes mandatory and the Automated Commercial System goes offline, causing some concern among customs brokers and software developers (see 1506030054).
CBP will shut down its Air Automated Manifest System (AMS) on June 6, requiring use of the Automated Commercial Environment for all air manifests after a month-long delay prompted by concerns of a lack of testing by the trade (see 1504300015). The migration to ACE will cause both the Automated Commercial System and ACE to be taken down, with ACS becoming unavailable at 3 p.m. EDT on June 6 for two hours, and ACE going offline around 7 p.m. EDT on June 6 and coming back by 5 a.m. EDT on June 7, said CBP in a recent CSMS message (here). ACE should then take about two hours to get back to real-time processing as it clears out a backlog of data submitted during the outage, according to the transcript from a June 4 CBP webinar on the air manifest transition (here).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 3, 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.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 2, 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 released its June 3 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 22) (here). While it does not contain any rulings, it does include recent CBP notices and Court of International Trade decisions.
CBP is going through a "revolutionary series of changes, both culturally, organizationally and through our implementation of new technology that will fundamentally change in every way that we look at trade enforcement," said Michael Denning, an advisor on Cargo and Conveyance Security in the CBP Office of Field Operations. Some of the key areas for agency focus during this evolution include a drive toward consistency between the ports and the Centers of Excellence and Expertise, he said on May 27 while speaking at the West Coast Trade Symposium. Risk targeting has improved and the agency is now building on some of that through the expansion of Trusted Trader within the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program, he said.