Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Dec. 20 with 375 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 175,239. The most recent ruling is dated 12/19/2012.
CBP will continue to accept applications to its Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS) pilot program though Jan. 8, said a Federal Register notice. The agency received a number of requests for extensions for submitting applications and experienced technical difficulties with the email box set up for the ACAS pilot. it said. Any applicants who have not received a response from CBP will need to resubmit their applications, the notice said. The original deadline for applicants was Nov. 23.
CBP released its Dec. 19 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 52). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent Court of International Trade decisions.
CBP Miami scheduled two seminars on the Valentine's Day cut flower peak season plan for 2013, it said in an information bulletin. The seminars are to be Jan. 10 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the CBP Cargo Clearance Center conference room 264 6601 N.W. 25th St. Miami, Florida.
CBP posted an importation advisory saying mandarin or “Christmas” oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, and pomelos are banned from non-commercial import into the U.S. “Typically we see an influx of “Christmas Oranges” around the holiday season, and when Canadian citizens travel to southern states for the winter,” said Great Falls Area Port Director Daniel Escobedo in a press release.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Dec. 20, 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 http://1.usa.gov/VxGCVA. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Dec. 19, 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 http://1.usa.gov/VxGCVA. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
Several government officials involved in trade will speak at the U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel (USA-ITA) annual conference Jan. 9 in New York, the association said in a press release. CBP Assistant Commissioner Al Gina will provide the lunch keynote, while Consumer Products Safety Commissioner Nancy Nord will do the regulatory issues keynote, said USA-ITA. Additional speakers include Kim Glas, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Textiles and Apparel at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and John Leonard, Acting Executive Director of Trade Policy & Programs at CBP.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Dec. 17, 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 http://1.usa.gov/VxGCVA. (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 a memorandum announcing that the 2013 tariff rate quota for milk and cream, fluid or frozen, fresh or sour, provided for in Chapter 4, Additional U.S. Note 5 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule will open on January 2, 2013 with a low-duty quantity of 6,694,840 liters.