A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 1, 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 to July 6 on an existing information collection for application for foreign-trade zone admission. CBP proposes (here) to extend the expiration date of this information collection without a change to the burden hours or information collected.
The second phase of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Portal 2.0 “is now live,” allowing exporter-only entities to apply for C-TPAT membership, said CBP in a CSMS message (here). “Companies that desire to initiate a brand new security model application to C-TPAT as an exporter” may now apply, it said. Importers who have already signed the Export Agreement have automatically had their C-TPAT security model expanded to include the exporter security criteria that now require responses, as well as other data fields unique to exporters that must be completed, said CBP. Importers that have not signed the Export Agreement will be able to expand their security model when CBP releases the next software update “in mid-June,” said the agency.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 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.
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of June 1. This report (here) includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, and tobacco; and certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying textile articles and/or other articles; the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated May 27 (here) with 172 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 186,849. The most recent ruling is dated 05/21/15.
CBP recently posted its fiscal year 2014 Performance and Accountability Report (here). The 172-page document includes an update on whether CBP is meeting its objectives, financial statements, and the results of a recent audit from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General that found problems with CBP’s drawback program and single transaction bonds (see 1505060021). According to the report, CBP is not meeting its objective of 59% of cargo by value being imported into the U.S. by members of CBP trade partnership programs, with only 53.9% imported by participants. The report also says “CBP plans to complete the regulatory requirements” in FY 2015 to make Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS) “mandatory for all cargo destined for the U.S.” According to the DHS regulatory agenda published in May, CBP will issue a proposed rule on ACAS in December (see 1505220006).
In the May 27 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 21) (here), CBP published notices that propose to revoke or modify rulings and similar treatment for the tariff classification of blind rivet nuts and cyclosporine.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP said its Harmonized System Update (HSU) 1503 was created May 28, containing 29,478 ABI records and 5,084 harmonized tariff records. The update adds new other government agency code indicators for use with Partner Government Agency (PGA) message sets, said CBP (here). Changes also include updates to raspberry assessments, it said. Adjustments required for the verification of the 2015 Harmonized Tariff Schedule are also included, CBP said in a CSMS message. The modified records can be retrieved electronically via the procedures indicated in the CATAIR. Further information: Jennifer Keeling, Jennifer.Keeling@dhs.gov.