CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 27, 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 CBP's ADCVD Search page.
CBP has announced that the quarterly Internal Revenue Service interest rates used to calculate interest on overdue accounts (underpayments) and refunds (overpayments) of customs duties will remain the same as the previous quarter, it said in a Federal Register notice.
The FDA will not be processing transactions sent from CBP's certification testing environment as the FDA's non-production downstream servers will be shutting down daily from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. and throughout the weekends, CBP said in a June 30 cargo systems message.
CBP on June 28 deployed a new "unknown" code for reporting country of smelt or cast for derivative aluminum imports to the ACE certification and production environments, as expected (see 2506130062), according to a June 30 cargo systems message. As a result, goods for which the country of smelt or cast is known will now face a 200% tariff on their aluminum content.
As CBP continues to ramp up enforcement of U.S. import compliance, one issue some industry experts want CBP to address is what the agency's increased enforcement means for the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, or CTPAT, according to comments from panelists during a June 27 session of a conference sponsored by the American Association of Exporters and Importers.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 25, 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 CBP's ADCVD Search page.
CBP created Harmonized System Update 2524 on June 27, containing 484 Automated Broker Interface records and 114 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2524 includes the Mid-Year 484(f) changes, effective July 1, and adjustments required by the verification of the 2025 Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
CBP has released its June 25 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 26), which includes the following ruling actions: