CBP created Harmonized System Update (HSU) 2407 on June 20, containing 17 ABI records and 4 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. "This update contained Section 301 exclusion updates that included extending HTS numbers 9903.88.67 and 9903.88.68 from May 31, 2024, to June 14, 2024, and adding new HTS number 9903.88.69 effective June 15, 2024, through May 25, 2025," CBP said in a June 27 CSMS message.
Matt Zehner, chair of the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Working Group for the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, told attendees at the June 26 meeting that Project Harvest, a process that sends automated messages to entry filers with possible AD/CVD mistakes in their entry summaries, has been working well. The system sends messages to filers who have either improperly used a company-specific 10-digit AD/CVD case number, or if the entry summary appears to have omitted AD/CVD case information.
Homeland Security Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade Tasha Reid Hippolyte said that while the implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in its first two years hasn't been perfect, "I feel like we're in a really good space," even as there are still more pain points to work through with the trade.
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 (HSU) 2409 on June 26, containing 261 ABI records and 79 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. "This update also includes the addition of HTS 9903.45.29 for Section 201 Bifacial Exclusions," CBP said in a CSMS message. "Additional communication with further details, information and guidance on Section 201 bifacial exclusions is forthcoming."
CBP will soon begin rejecting ACE filings for products that fail to comply with certain organic import filing requirements under the USDA’s Strengthening Organic Enforcement final rule, which requires electronic National Organic Program import certificates for organic agricultural products (see 2403190066 and 2301180051). CBP has been issuing warnings for those filings since new USDA organic enforcement regulations became effective March 19, but the agency said in a June 24 CSMS message that the warning will change to a reject in ACE’s certification environment on June 28 and in ACE’s production environment on Sept. 19.
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 24, 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 announced a new Enforce and Protect Act investigation, saying it has reasonable suspicion that Global Natural Ingredients evaded the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on xanthan gum from China and it has enacted interim measures against the importer.