CBP has posted the OFO Weekly Blotter for May 8-14, 2010. The Blotter provides information on Office of Field Operations seizures, interceptions, and apprehensions throughout the specified week.
In the May 26, 2010 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 44, No. 22), CBP published notices that revoke or modify certain rulings in order to correctly classify the products described below.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China on Supply Chain Security and Facilitation.
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 only available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)
CBP has posted an updated version of its Public Automated Commercial System FIRMS (Facilities Information and Resources Management Systems) report that is organized by port code and alphabetically by company name.
CBP has posted an updated version of its CF 1400 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Entrances) - an electronic query report for CF 1400 of the Vessel Management System (VMS), in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by entrances. CBP has also posted an updated CF 1401 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Clearances) - an electronic query report for CF 1401 of the VMS, in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by clearances.
The Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport has announced that it will hold a classification seminar on stone and household glassware on June 29, 2010 in Long Beach. Registration is required, and those interested must register by June 18. (LA Public Bulletin LA10-007 available via email by sending a request to documents@brokerpower.com)
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) and tariff preference level (TPL) commodity report as of May 24, 2010. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc.
CBP has issued a memorandum announcing that the fourth tranche for the fiscal year 2010 specialty sugar TRQ that opened on May 17, 2010 did not oversubscribe at opening moment.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the low-duty tariff preference level (1) for Mexico has filled.