Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Sept. 4. The corresponding downloadable rulings are now available.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Sept. 4, 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 agents seized over nine tons of marijuana from a tractor-trailer at the San Clement checkpoint on Sept. 3, CBP said. Upon further inspection, CBP found the truck to be fully packed with 218 marijuana-filled boxes, with a total weight of about 18,458 pounds and an estimated street value of $14,766,448. The driver, a 43-year-old male U.S. citizen, was turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration, along with the vehicle and marijuana.
CBP is amending its regulations expanding and revising the geographical limits of the port of Indianapolis, Ind., said CBP in a notice on the final rule. The extension involves four municipalities within Marion County, as well as portions of the neighboring counties of Boone, Hendricks, and Johnson. CBP said the proposed change would not result in a change in the service provided to the public by the port nor a change in the staffing or workload at the port.. The final rule will be effective Oct. 7. The agency sought comment on the proposed changes last year (see 12042413).
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Sept. 4 with 112 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 178,717. The most recent ruling is dated 08/28/2013.
CBP issued its Sept. 4 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 37), which contains nine notices of the following ruling actions:
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 Sept. 3. 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 Sept. 2 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.
San Diego CBP officers seized almost 1,000 pounds of marijuana hidden in a shipment of scrap corrugated cardboard on Aug. 29 at the Otay Mesa cargo facility, CBP said. Upon further examination of a 1999 Freightliner tractor pulling a trailer with the shipment, officers removed some of the cardboard from the top of a bundle and found packages of marijuana within the center. A total of 305 packages with a street value of about $430,000 were found in several bundles.