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CBP Issues Harmonized System Update With 14,711 ABI Records, 3,163 Harmonized Tariff Records
August 8, 2016 |Customs

CBP created Harmonized System Update (HSU) 1609 on July 21, and HSU 1610 on Aug. 4, the agency said in a CSMS message (here). Modifications include changes to support new ACE license, permit and certificate (LPC) functionality and adjustments made as result of a recent Food and Drug Administration Deeming Rule for Tobacco, effective Aug. 8, 2016. More information can be found on the FDA’s website (here). Further modifications include the addition of EPA PGA indicators to be used with PGA Message Set submissions, CBP said. The modified records are currently available to all ABI participants and can be retrieved electronically via the procedures indicated in the CATAIR, CBP said. Further information: Jennifer Keeling, Jennifer.Keeling@dhs.gov

CBP Completes Duty Refund Processing for Entries During GSP Lapse
August 8, 2016 |Customs

CBP has completed the processing of refunds of duties paid during the two-year lapse in the General System of Preferences program prior to its renewal in 2015, a CBP spokeswoman said. The agency refunded approximately $1.31 billion in duties paid on goods that would have been GSP-eligible if the program had not expired. Processing was completed in two phases, with CBP automatically refunding duties paid on entries that included the GSP special program indicator (SPI) in phase one, then moving to the remaining 2 percent of entry summaries with special indicators that "could not be scripted" (see 1507210023). CBP also accepted written duty refund requests. President Barack Obama retroactively renewed GSP in June 2015 (see 1506290045).

Topics:Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)
CBP Expands ACE Portal Account Testing To Include Protests
August 5, 2016 |Customs

CBP will add "Protest Filer Account" testing to its ACE Portal pilot, the agency said in a notice (here). "The owner of an ACE Protest Filer Account will have the ability to create and maintain through the ACE Portal information regarding the name, address, and contact information for the corporate and individual account owner for the Protest Filer Account," CBP said. "Protest filers will use the existing account structure established for other accounts within the ACE Portal." CBP will later test electronic protest submissions through the ACE Protest Module from Protest Filer Accounts, CBP said. "Parties authorized to file a protest include importers or consignees for an entry, or their sureties; persons paying any charge or exaction; persons seeking entry or delivery; persons filing a claim for drawback; exporters or producers of the merchandise subject to a determination of origin under section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act, if the exporter or producer completed and signed a NAFTA Certificate of Origin covering the merchandise; or the authorized agent of any of these persons," CBP said. "When a protest is filed by a person acting as an agent for the principal that agent must have a power of attorney that grants authority to the agent to make, sign and file a protest on behalf of the protesting party." CBP recently announced the end to electronic protests through the Automated Commercial System (see 1607270015). Electronic filing will require use of ACE starting Aug. 27, CBP said last month (see 1607070032).

Topics:Drawback
CBP Releases Aug. 3 Customs Bulletin
August 3, 2016 |Customs

CBP released its Aug. 3 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 50, No. 31) (here). While it does not contain any rulings, it does include recent CBP notices and Court of International Trade opinions. CBP issued a notice on its receipt of a "Lever-Rule" protection application from Abbott Laboratories for "blood glucose testing strips" products with Abbott trademarks “FREESTYLE,” “FREESTYLE LITE,” or “DESIGN ONLY (BUTTERFLY DESIGN).” Abbott would like CBP to stop importation of the company's testing strips intended for sale in countries outside the U.S., known as gray market products. CBP will grant such protection, which is known as Lever-Rule protection, if it finds the parts are physically and materially different from the products intended for sale in the U.S.