CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
This summary report highlights the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels from CBP’s July 16 “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” It also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly July 16, 2012 “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.”1
CBP will host a trade forum on Fines, Penalties and Forfeitures (FP&F) at 10 a.m. PST July 26, CBP said in a public bulletin. The forum will be at 25 Harbor Plaza, Long Beach, Calif. 90802. The presentation will be conducted by Robert Thierry, director of FP&F and Jeff DeHaven, deputy director of FP&F.
CBP’s pilot test of electronic export ocean manifests (CBP Form 1302A) using the CBP Document Image System (DIS) will be expanded in mid-August to cover all East Coast ports, as well as the ports of Chicago, Buffalo, and Detroit, said Cynthia Allen of CBP’s ACE Business Office. The pilot, which began March 28, included eight ports in the Southeast and was based at CBP’s Atlanta office. The 18 participating carriers were given the option of entirely electronic filing of their ocean export manifests. “One carrier has calculated savings of $20,000 per month” due to the pilot, said Allen.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's web site as of July 18, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://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 its textile and apparel enforcement statistics through the first two quarters of fiscal year 2012. Textiles and apparel seized in the first two quarters for intellectual property rights violations fell about 30% from the same period in 2011. Total value of such IPR seizures fell by about 41%. The value of all types of commercial fraud penalty actions is well above the corresponding period in 2011, even though the number of 2012 actions is about half those in the first two quarters of 2011.
CBP released its July 13 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 29). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does list recent information collections and Court of International Trade decisions.
CBP recently posted revised versions of its informed compliance publications entitled "Hand Tool Sets Classified Within Subheadings 8205.90.00 and 8206.00.00" (here) and "Distinguishing Bolts from Screws" (here). CBP said there were no substantive changes made to the revised versions.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated July 13 with 282 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 173,094. The most recent ruling is dated 7/13/2012 12:00:00 AM.