An increase in CBP's trade processing and the additions of six new Centers of Excellence and Expertise (CEEs) were among trade issues highlighted by the agency in it's "2013 Fiscal Year in Review." CBP processed more than $2.3 trillion in trade, "while enforcing U.S. trade laws that protect the economy, health and safety of the American public," it said. CBP also processed "nearly 25 million cargo containers through the nation's ports of entry, up 1 percent from last year." and "conducted more than 24,000 seizures of goods that violated intellectual property rights, with a total retail value of $1.7 billion, representing a 38 percent increase in value from FY 2012."
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Jan. 16, 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 said its Harmonized System Update 1402 was created Jan. 16, containing 10,199 ABI records and 1,819 harmonized tariff records. Adjustments required by the verification of the 2014 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) were made, "including corrections to cotton assessments and the addition of PGA (PARTICIPATING GOVERNMENT AGENCY) indicators that are subject to the PGA message set," CBP said in a CSMS message. The modified records can be retrieved electronically via the procedures indicated in the CATAIR. Further information: Jennifer Keeling, Jennifer.Keeling@dhs.gov.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Jan. 15, 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 released its Jan. 15 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 48, No. 2). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent Court of International Trade decisions and general notices.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP issued a final rule, effective Jan. 15, to amend CBP regulations to reflect the imposition of import restrictions on certain archaeological and ethnological material from Bulgaria. These restrictions are being imposed in accordance with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. The final rule adds Bulgaria to the list of countries for which a bilateral agreement has been entered into for imposing cultural property import restrictions. It also contains the designated list that describes the types of archaeological and ethnological articles to which the restrictions apply.
Entries submitted to CBP missing invoices require a new entry and cannot be updated in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) with a Post Summary Correction (PSC), CBP said in a CSMS message. The ACE Business Rules and Process Document "is currently being revised to include this additional guidance," CBP said.
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Jan. 13. 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.
CBP posted a Jan. 13 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.