CBP is working to fix connectivity problems with the Automated Broker Interface, the agency said in a CSMS message. "We have received reports from some filers that they are not able to connect to CBP," it said. Not all filers are affected, said CBP.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 14, 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 July 15 for existing information collections for vessel foreign repairs or equipment purchases. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the burden hours.
CBP is requesting comments by July 15 for existing information collections for NAFTA origin. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the burden hours.
CBP's Office of Field Operations "endorsed the reaffirmation of agriculture reimbursable overtime to facilitate trade (Ag ROT), while being reimbursed for agriculture service," said the Port of San Francisco in a information notice. As of June 1, CBP will offer the reimbursable overtime, "which will be worked exclusively by CBP Agriculture Specialists," the notice said. Any requests will be made "in accordance with port policy and CBP will require reimbursable overtime payment in accordance with existing regulations."
CBP stopped 2,400 pounds of marijuana hidden in a shipment of jalapenos, the agency said. After a CBP dog alerted officers in Nogales, Arizona to the presence of drugs in the trailer, they found 105 bales of marijuana, worth more than $1.2 million, the agency said.
Cuprammonium rayon filament yarns recently added to the list of items not available in commercial quantities in a timely manner under Appendix 4-B-1 of the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (see 14041715) may be imported as a short supply item as of April 18, said CBP in a memo to port directors and office of field operations. The filament yarns, which are classified in Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 5403.39, can be entered under heading 9920.95.00 as long as the goods meet the requirements of Note 5 of Chapter 99, subchapter XX, said the memo. Such goods are subject to quantitative limits and must be entered according to QB 14-131 (here), said CBP.
CBP released its May 14 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 48, No. 19). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent Court of International Trade decisions and general notices.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 12, 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 12. 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.