CBP issued its Oct. 10 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 42), which contains 4 notices of the following ruling actions:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Oct. 10, 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 again set 3 percent as the interest rate for when a reconciliation results in additional money owed Customs, in a notice. The rate is for the fourth quarter, and is the same as it was for the third quarter (the second quarter rate was 2 percent).
CBP posted a fact sheet on deployed Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) capabilities as of October 2012. The following capabilities have been delivered in ACE in support of CBP, Participating Government Agencies (PGAs), and the trade community:
CBP is aware of an issue with the November Periodic Monthly Statement Due Date in Account Revenue Reports, it said in a CSMS message. The correct final Periodic Monthly Statement due date is Nov. 23, 2012. When running the Account Revenue reports users may see some entry summaries flagged with a due date of Nov. 21, 2012 and others with a due date of Nov. 23, 2012. The Nov. 21, 2012 date is incorrect and will be corrected as follows, it said:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Oct. 9, 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 posted a list of questions and answers from its Sept. 20 webinar on the Role of the Broker. Participant names were removed to protect privacy, and questions were modified to remove typos, correct spelling and punctuation, and call out acronyms. The Q&A is (here). The full recording recording of the webinar is (here).
CBP posted an Oct. 9 version of its CF 1400 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Entrances) electronic query report of the Vessel Management System (VMS), in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by entrances. CBP also posted a version of its CF 1401 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Clearances) electronic query report of the VMS, in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by clearances.
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Oct. 9. 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 issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues: