A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website April 30, 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 renewal of the charter Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations to CBP "is necessary and in the public interest," said the Department of Homeland Security in a notice (here). The renewed charter is effective March 23, 2015 and expires March 23, 2017.
CBP and Senegal Customs signed a Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement on April 27, said CBP (here). Such agreements "provide the legal framework for the exchange of information and evidence to assist countries in the enforcement of Customs laws, including duty evasion, trafficking, proliferation, money laundering, and terrorism-related activities," said CBP. The agency now has 73 CMAAs with countries around the world, it said.
CBP is soliciting applications to sit on its 20-member Airport and Seaport Inspections User Fee Advisory Committee, it said in a notice (here). The committee advises CBP on matters related to the performance of airport and seaport inspections coinciding with the assessment of an agriculture, customs, or immigration user fee, said the notice. Members will be selected to “represent the point of view of the airline, cruise ship, transportation, and other industries that may be subject to agriculture, customs, or immigration user fees,” said CBP. Applications are due June 3.
In the April 22 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 16) (here), CBP published notices that propose to revoke rulings and similar treatment for the tariff classification of data recorders and data recorder components.
CBP "is focused on getting remaining software vendors certified for entry filing" ahead of the Nov. 1 transition date for cargo release and summary filing in the Automated Commercial Environment, said CBP (here). "Filers who are not prepared to file entries/entry summaries in ACE on November 1 could face delays in cargo processing, impacting release of goods at the border since entries/entry summaries not filed in ACE will be filed as paper transactions," the agency said. So far, 36 of 38 software vendors are certified for entry summary and 21 are certified for entry, CBP said.
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.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP is requesting comments by June 30 on an existing information collection for extension applications for temporary importation bonds. CBP proposes (here) to extend the expiration date of this information collection without a change to the burden hours or information collected.