CBP will hold the West Coast Trade Symposium in Washington state on May 27, said an agency flyer. More information will be available soon, it said.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated March 31 (here) with 268 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 186,185. The most recent ruling is dated 03/31/15.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 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:
Three Centers of Excellence and Expertise are set to take over post-release operations for certain goods on April 6, said CBP in a CSMS message (here). CBP recently said the three CEEs -- electronics in Los Angeles, pharmaceuticals in New York, and petroleum and minerals in Houston -- would soon begin to handle some duties previously done at the port level (see 1501210021). CBP provided additional information and CEE team numbers (here) and (here), respectively.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 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.
CBP is requesting comments by June 1 on four new collections of information, for electronic ocean, air and rain export manifests and export vessel stow plans, it said. It's also extending existing information collections for cargo manifest/declaration, stow plans, container status messages and Importer Security Filings. CBP proposes (here) to extend the expiration date of this information collection with a change to the burden hours or information collected.
CBP posted individual summaries of several FTAs, including NAFTA (here), Jordan (here), Panama (here) and Morocco (here). The summaries largely follow the format of CBP's side-by-side FTA comparisons (see 14081510).
CBP posted the new charter for the 14th term of the CBP Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (here). The charter, filed with Congress on March 23, estimates annual operating costs to be about $560,027. The previous charter estimated annual costs at about $545,847. CBP also posted a list of the members of the COAC (here).
CBP is extending the comment period to April 29 for an existing information collection on Entry and Immediate Delivery applications and Automated Commercial Environment Cargo Release. CBP proposes (here) to extend the expiration date of this information collection with a change in the burden hours resulting from the transition from Form 3461 to ACE Cargo Release.