Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Aug. 19 with 124 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 178,606. The most recent ruling is dated 08/16/2013.
In the Aug. 21 Issue of the CBP bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 35), CBP issued a notice regarding the dates and draft agenda for the 52nd Session of the World Customs Organization’s Harmonized System Committee, which will meet in Brussels on Sept. 18-27.
CBP released its Aug. 21 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 35). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent general notices.
Chipboard letters with printed designs for use in scrapbooks are correctly classified as their constituent material paperboard, and not as printed designs on paperboard, said CBP as it affirmed an earlier tariff classification ruling. The shape of the letters is the most important aspect of the product, and not the printed designs, CBP said.
CBP posted a reminder that it will have the scheduled weekly outage to ACE Certification from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET Aug. 21. ACE Certification is the testing environment used by trade software developers. If you are not developing or testing software, this outage does not apply to you, and ACE Production won't be impacted, CBP said.
The ACE Certification system was back up and operational by early afternoon Aug. 19, CBP said. It had been experiencing technical issues earlier that day, and was not available (see 13081914), CBP said.
CBP created new capabilities in ACE allowing brokers with ACE Secure Data Portal access to download a template to add, edit and delete multiple employee records in their ACE portal account, it said in a new CSMS message. The new "Broker Employee Data Upload Quick Reference Guide" was posted (here) to CBP.gov providing information on adding individual employee data records or using a template that may be saved to your computer and retrieved to make updates to employee data records simultaneously. Adding employee information in the ACE Portal will allow a broker to comply with the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 111, CBP said.
CBP posted the ACE Single Window Document Image System (DIS) Trade Scenarios document to CBP.gov. The document lists six scenarios for trade community members to better understand how DIS can be used in their business operations. A copy is available (here).
On Aug. 14, CBP published a final determination concluding that the U.S. was the country of origin for certain hard disk drives (HDDs) and self-encrypting drives (SEDs) by Seagate Technology. The three lines of Seagate’s HDDs are designed in the U.S. and assembled from components manufactured by Seagate outside the U.S. or obtained from Asian suppliers, CBP said. The fully assembled HDDs are then imported into the U.S., but cannot function as storage media in their imported condition, according to information submitted by Seagate. The imported HDDs are “unblocked and programmed with two types of firmware” in the U.S., which makes the HDD “a fully functional, generic storage device,” CBP said. CBP added that about 25 percent of generic HDDs are then reformatted with customer security requirements developed within the U.S., transforming the generic HDDs to SEDs.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Aug. 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.)