CBP updated a notice to its website regarding its 2001 announcement that it would no longer be providing importers with free reports of entry summaries that have been flagged for reconciliation and would instead provide such reports on a fee-for-service basis only.
CBP is requesting comments by Jan. 13 for an existing information collection on forms for importer ID import records. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the burden hours. While CBP has previously discussed adding new information requirements to CBP Form 5106 (see 12062524), the notice doesn't make any changes to the information collected.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Nov. 6, 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 rescheduled the East Coast Trade Symposium for March 6-7 in the Washington area, the agency said. CBP postponed the symposium, previously scheduled for Oct. 24-25, due to the government shutdown (see 13101602). The theme for the symposium is "“Increasing Economic Competitiveness Through Global Partnership and Innovation.” A previously released draft agenda for the event included a keynote address from House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and Deputy Secretary General Sergio Mujica for the World Customs Organization, though that agenda was removed from CBP's Website.
CBP is up to 1,626 total Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) validations, including 432 initial validations and 1,194 revalidations, the agency said in an update on C-TPAT achievements. CBP has said it plans to get through 2,200 validations this year (see 13060627). There has also been a total of 1,719 suspensions and 1,261 C-TPAT removals.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Nov. 4. 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 released its Nov. 6 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 43). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent Court of International Trade decisions. CBP also noted that two of the weekly Customs Bulletins, for Oct. 16 and 23, were skipped because of the "lapse of appropriations for the federal government" and emergency furloughs (here).
CBP posted an updated list of the interest rates for additional duty payments owed to customs as a result of reconciliation. CBP notes that when a reconciliation results in additional monies owed CBP, the payment must be made with interest, calculated by the filer using the rates provided in the list. For Oct. 1 - Dec. 31, the rate is 3%.
Mixed nuts imported to the U.S. by CIL International that were salted and packaged in South Korea do not meet the eligibility requirements for preferential treatment under the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS), said CBP in a recently released ruling, dated Aug. 19. The ruling, HQ H243328, responds to a CIL request that the agency reconsider another ruling on the issue that said the nuts were not eligible under KORUS. The company asked CBP to revise its ruling based on how it treated similar nuts under NAFTA, which CBP said cannot be compared, despite similar language in the free trade agreements.