U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of May 11, 2012, 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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection provided information on the reallocation of additional tariff-rate quota for raw sugar and reallocation of unused 2012 raw sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ). The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative provided notice of the country-by-country allocations for both categories, effective April 26, 2012.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released its May 9 Customs Bulletin. While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does list recent information collection notices and recent Court of International Trade decisions.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of May 10, 2012, 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.
The remaining five locations for CBP Centers for Expertise and Excellence (CEEs) are yet to be finalized, said officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection. There are currently two CEEs, one for Electronics in Long Beach, Calif. and one for Pharmaceuticals in New York. CBP announced plans for two more CEEs, an Automotive and Aerospace center in Detroit and a Petroleum, Natural Gas and Minerals center in Houston, on May 10, 2012, but locations of five others scheduled to be completed by the end of FY 2013 weren't mentioned in an updated "Trade Transformation" document (here).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of May 9, 2012, 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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection made a final determination that India is the country of origin for Special Ops Flashlights, Sportsman Flashlights, and a light-emitting diode (LED) blank assembly . The final determination ran in the Federal Register May 11, 2012.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing a 30-day extension of the comment period to June 11, 2012, on its request for comments on an existing information collection, Customs Modernization Act Record Keeping Requirements. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with a change to the burden hours. The notice ran in the Federal Register May 11, 2012.