CBP issued its July 31 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 32), which contains notices of the following ruling actions:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 29, 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 July 29 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 July 29. 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.
A small number of goods in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule don't have corresponding free trade agreement (FTA) tariff change rules (TCR), said CBP in a CSMS message. That's because the FTA were negotiated using an HTS that has since been modified -- in 2007 and 2012 -- and corresponding tariff change rules have not yet been implemented, the agency said. Until the rules "are implemented, manufactures of affected goods seeking to perform a TCR origination analysis should perform the operation classifying both the good and its materials in accordance with the most recent HTSUS that has both the tariff item and the corresponding TCR," it said. The certification should include the current HTS number the HTS number used to perform the TCR, it said.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 26, 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 and the Consumer Product Safety Commission stopped and seized two shipments of playground equipment from China found to have too-high levels of lead, said CBP in a press release. Both shipments were initially held in Detroit and later CPSC analysis found the goods to be unsafe for the U.S. consumer market, said CBP. The first shipment, destined for Minneapolis, had a declared value of $1,550 and the second shipment, destined for Canton, Mich., was declared at $4,691, said CBP.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated July 26 with 114 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 178,304. The most recent ruling is dated 07/26/2013.
Wooden framed mirrors imported from China then exported to Mexico, where they undergo alterations, and finally returned to the U.S. are eligible for preferential duty exemption status, according to a CBP June decision. The ruling addresses consideration of the mirrors under subheading 9802.00.50 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, which says items exported from the U.S. that are brought back into the U.S. after increasing in value are fully or partially duty exempt.