CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of July 2.
CBP posted an updated list of the interest rates (updated for the third quarter of 2012) for additional duty payments owed to Customs as a result of reconciliation. CBP notes that when a reconciliation results in additional monies owed CBP, the payment must be made with interest, calculated by the filer using the rates provided in the list. For July 1 - September 30, 2012 the rate is 3%.
CBP released its Trade Newsletter for the 2012 third quarter. The newsletter provides an update on its recent ruling on the treatment of post-import adjustments, the Simplified Entry pilot, progress on ACE, the Centers for Excellence and Expertise, collaboration between CBP and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the update to 19 CFR Part 111 broker regulations.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
In early January 2012, CBP issued instructions for the ten weekly Special Import Quota announcements for Upland Cotton that were issued by the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation. CBP also listed the dates and quantities for each of the ten. In February and March, CBP added weekly Special Quotas 22 - 26, and Special Quotas 1-9. CBP's instructions, with the new Special Quotas 10-11 are summarized below.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's web site as of June 29, 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.)
The customs broker’s license examination scheduled for October 2012 will be on Wednesday, Oct. 3, said CBP in a notice in the Federal Register July 3. While usually scheduled for the first Monday in October, this year the first Monday coincides with the observance of the religious holiday Sukkot, said CBP.
CBP posted a transcript of the June 28 Webinar on "Modernizing broker permitting requirements," the third of several Webinars on changes to broker regulation.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's web site as of June 28, 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 will take an outage to the ACE CERT environment on June 29, 2012 in response to trade software developer requests to deploy fixes to the ACE certification environment prior to deployment to ACE Production, the agency said in CSMS message. The outage will be from noon through 6:30 p.m. EST on June 29. CBP said it would be deploying fixes in advance of their deployment to ACE Production on July 7.