U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing that the 2011 tariff rate quota on animal feed containing milk or milk derivatives provided for in HTS Chapter 23, Additional U.S. Note 2 will open on January 3, 2011. The aggregate low-duty quantity is 7,399,700 kg and the below-listed countries have the following minimum access amounts:
CBP has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ESAR A2.2 programming issues.
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of November 30, 2010.
CBP has updated its Trade Outreach via Webinar document to include a December 7, 2010 webinar entitled "ACE Reports Webinar: The Benefits of the New Entry Summary Universe. Registration is available here.
In October 2010, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a proposed rule that would amend 19 CFR 111.24 to allow customs brokers to disclose certain information regarding client (importer) records under certain conditions. Comments on the proposed rule are due by December 27, 2010.
CBP has posted the U.S. Border Patrol Weekly Blotter for November 18-24, 2010. The Blotter provides information on Border Patrol activities during the specified week.
CBP's Office of Information and Technology has posted an updated list of companies/persons offering ABI data processing services to the trade community.
CBP has posted the weekly foreign currency exchange rate multipliers for the week ending November 26, 2010.
An overview of a number of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, is provided below. (Note that the complete message is available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)
CBP has issued a CSMS message notifying those carriers who report inward manifest data to CBP using the ANSI X.12 reporting format that transactions made on November 26, 2010, between the hours of 8:30 and 10:30 am EST, were not processed by the CBP mainframe. The applications include manifests, amendments, vessel/rail/truck and inbond arrivals. Any carrier who has not received results from a transmission made during this period is requested to re-transmit the data to CBP.