A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Feb. 21, 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.)
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Feb. 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 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.)
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Feb. 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 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 posted a Feb. 18 version of its CF 1400 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Entrances) electronic query report of the Vessel Management System (VMS), in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by entrances. CBP also posted a version of its CF 1401 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Clearances) electronic query report of the VMS, in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by clearances.
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Feb. 18. This report 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.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Feb. 18. The corresponding downloadable rulings are now available.
Drug trafficking activity through countries that do not produce the drugs has increased in recent years, said CBP in a Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism alert. Pointing to the Port of Guayaquil, Ecuador, CBP has "noted an alarming uptick in the number and size of drug trafficking operations targeting legitimate cargo" at the port involving corrupt officials, it said. "The increase in drug trafficking activity at the Port of Guayaquil is part of a larger shift that has seen traffickers bypass the traditional drug-producing countries of Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru in favor of Chile, Ecuador, and Panama." The "non-drug-producing countries accounted for nearly 66 percent of seizures compared to 34 percent from the traditional cocaine producers," the agency said. "Smugglers may have started to favor these countries because they are less focused on fighting drug trafficking compared to countries such as Colombia, where trafficking is a primary focal point of government policy and enforcement efforts. "
In the Feb. 19 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 48, No. 9), CBP published a notice that proposed to revoke rulings and similar treatment for the tariff classification of velvet poinsettia wreaths.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Feb. 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 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's Port of Fort Lauderdale/Port Everglades issued a Trade Information Notice soliciting applications to operate a Centralized Examination Station (CES) for Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The solicitation period began Feb. 19 and expires April 19. Any public comments are due by March 20.