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 22, 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 issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of July 22. 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 July 22 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.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated July 17. The corresponding downloadable rulings are now available.
CBP released its July 24 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 31). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent general notices.
CBP will begin the second phase of its Document Imaging System (DIS) pilot by adding software providers as participants and involving more partner government agency forms, the agency said in a notice. CBP previously announced the plans to expand the pilot (see 13071014).
CBP's New York field office provided guidance on how it handles the discovery of non-compliant wood packaging material (WPM) in July 16 informational pipeline. CBP will require immediate export of the entire shipment after the agency fines non-compliant WPM, it said. The bond-holder at the time of the discovery will receive an Emergency Action Notification, requiring export of the WPM within 72 hours of the notification, said CBP. Failure may result in liquidated damages, said CBP. U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations require that WPM be marked with several indicators that show the WPM has been properly treated.
A final rule from CBP on Importer Security Filing (ISF) is expected to come in February, said the Department of Homeland Security in its Spring 2013 Unified Agenda. The agency said in its previous regulatory agenda that CBP was targeting this past February for the final rule (see 13010330). No other trade-related items were listed on the DHS agenda.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 18, 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.)