The rescheduled deployment of the updated Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) is expected soon, said Shawn Porter, Supervisory Supply Chain Specialist at CBP, during a webinar hosted by Integration Point on May 21. CBP delayed a roll out of several new features to C-TPAT, including the addition of exporters, earlier this month (see 1505190026). A new rollout date must still be approved by CBP leadership "but it will be weeks, not months," he said. The delay was due to "technical issues that could not be resolved in the twelve-hour blackout window that we had been provided," Porter said.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 20, 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 the May 20 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 20), which contains the following ruling actions (here):
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 19, 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 issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 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 issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of May 18. 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.
CBP is extending the comment period to June 19 on an existing information collection for vessel clearance statements. CBP proposes (here) to extend the expiration date of this information collection without a change to the burden hours or information collected.
CBP outlined its recent enforcement work related to antidumping and countervailing duties in a AD/CVD Update (here). The update includes various statistics on CBP's AD/CVD enforcement during this fiscal year through mid-March. CBP closed 55 evasion allegations so far, it said. It also "activated 654 Commerce AD/CVD instructions and processed 38 [Court of International Trade] injunctions." CBP said it recently shut down "unscrupulous exporters that cause wild swings" in the garlic market, the agency said. Garlic industry "sources noted that for the past year, there has been a stable, orderly market, and it looks promising it will remain that way for at least the near future," the agency said.