A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 10, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
CBP issued a final rule extending and amending import restrictions on archaeological and ecclesiastical ethnological materials from Honduras, effective March 12. The import restrictions were scheduled to expire March 12.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Feb. 26. The corresponding downloadable rulings are now available.
CBP unveiled a new version of its website, CBP.gov. The new site is hoped to better "provide site users with fast access to the information they seek," the agency said in a press release.
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 March 7, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
Cleatus Hunt began as the Area Port Director at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Feb. 24, said CBP in a press release. Hunt will oversee agency operations at the airports in Dallas/Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, Midland, Lubbock, and Amarillo, Tulsa and Oklahoma City, said CBP.
CBP completed 143 total Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) validations, including 41 initial validations and 102 revalidations for 2014 as of March 4, it said in an update on program statistics. There have also been a total of 1,793 suspensions and 1,306 C-TPAT removals.
CBP is extending the comment period to April 10 for an existing information collections related to customs brokers. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the burden hours.
CBP is planning to unveil a new website on March 14, said Maria Luisa Boyce, senior advisor for trade at the agency. Boyce mentioned the coming change during the CBP Trade Symposium on March 7.