U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its February 15, 2012 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 8), which contains four notices of ruling actions, as follows:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a frequently asked questions and answers document to provide guidance to licensed Customs brokers on the submission of the Triennial Status Report and fee. The next triennial status report, in addition to a $100 fee, should be filed by February 29, 2012.

The International Trade Administration is giving advance notice that it and the International Trade Commission will consider revoking the antidumping duty order on activated carbon from China (A-570-904) in their automatic five year sunset review of this order, which is scheduled to be initiated in March 2012.

The International Trade Administration and the International Trade Commission have each issued notices initiating five-year Sunset Reviews of the antidumping duty orders on pure magnesium in granular form from China (A-570-864) (second review) and on clad steel plate from Japan (A-588-838)(third review).

In the January 25, 2012 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 5), CBP published two notices on its revocation or modification of five rulings and treatment regarding the tariff classification of salad spinners and plastic beverage bottles.

The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the January 31, 2012 Federal Register on the following AD/CV proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, the scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):

U.S. Customs and Border Protection's January 25, 2012 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 5) contains four notices of ruling actions, as follows:

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued a press release announcing that on January 23, 2012, the U.S. and Canada signed a two-year extension of the 2006 U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA). As a result, the 2006 SLA will be in effect through October 12, 2015 (rather than through October 12, 2013).

Following the February 2008 - January 2009 AD administrative review of certain frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam, Vietnamese producer/exporters challenged the International Trade Administration’s use of zeroing in AD administrative reviews while having abandoned the practice in investigations, and multiple Vietnamese plaintiffs also challenged the ITA’s labor rate calculations; its surrogate values work-up and surrogate financial expense calculations; its denial of a request for revocation; and its rejection of a separate rate certification due to late filing.

This is a reminder that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a frequently asked questions and answers document to provide guidance to licensed Customs brokers on the submission of the Triennial Status Report and fee. The next triennial status report, in addition to the $100 fee, should be filed by February 29, 2012.