A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Oct. 17, 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 http://addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
CBP issued a memorandum saying the second tranche (period 2) for the fiscal year 2013 specialty sugar tariff rate quota opens Oct. 26, at 1 p.m. EDT, or its equivalent in other time zones. The second tranche has a specialty sugar allocation of 35,245,000 kg and is expected to oversubscribe at opening moment.
CBP issued a memorandum announcing that the first tranche for the fiscal year 2012 specialty sugar tariff rate quota (TRQ) that opened Oct. 12 wasn't oversubscribed at opening moment.
CBP posted the presentation slides from its webinar on the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on aluminum extrusions from China. The presentation details the scope of the order, pointing to specific products, customs rulings, and International Trade Administration scope determinations to clarify which aluminum extrusions are subject to the AD/CV duty orders.
CBP will host a Trade Fair to provide members of the trade community the opportunity to speak one on one with representatives of federal agencies involved with imports and exports, CBP said in a CSMS message. The event will be Nov. 8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the M.O. Campbell Educational Center located at 1865 Aldine Bender Road, Houston, TX 77032.
In the Oct. 10 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 42), CBP a notice of revocation and modification of rulings and treatment regarding the tariff classification of work footwear .
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Oct. 15. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, and tobacco; and 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 textile articles and/or other articles; the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc.
CBP will host a trade forum on Fines, Penalties and Forfeitures (FP&F) at 10 a.m. PST Oct. 31, CBP said in a public bulletin. The forum will be at 25 Harbor Plaza, Long Beach, Calif. 90802. The presentation will be conducted by Robert Thierry, director of FP&F and Jeff DeHaven, deputy director of FP&F.
CBP posted the October 2012 customs broker exam (here) and answer key (here).
CBP is correcting 19 CFR in Section 12.112, the agency said in Oct. 18 Federal Register notice. The correction replaces “(Index of Pesticide Products located in the Environmental Protection Agency's handbook entitled Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings, found at http://www.epa.gov)” with “(Environmental Protection Agency Form 3540-1)”.