In the July 1 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 26) (here), CBP published notices that propose to revoke or modify rulings and similar treatment for the tariff classification of footwear from China and mobile phone kits.
CBP released the July 8 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 27), which contains the following ruling actions (here):
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 6, 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://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of July 6. This report (here) 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.
The country of origin for government procurement purposes of negative pressure wound therapy systems manufactured in the United Kingdom by Smith & Nephew from Chinese, U.S., Canadian and U.K. components is the U.K., said CBP in a final determination issued July 7 (here). While the components of the pump are mostly made in China, the firmware that allows the pump to regulate the pressure around a wound is imprinted onto flash memory chips in the U.K., said CBP. The wound dressing itself is also made in the U.K. from U.K.-origin components, rendering the totality of the negative pressure wound therapy system U.K.-origin, it said.
CBP posted to its website an updated version of its CATAIR chapter on Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Entry Summary Create/Update (here), it said in a CSMS message (here). The revised CATAIR chapter includes changes "pertinent to additional Entry Type Codes (02, 06, 07, 12, 21, 22, 23, 31, 32, 34, 38, 51, and 52)," many of which CBP recently delayed until Oct. 31 (see 1506030054). CBP also included a revised
ACS-EI to ACE-AE Entry Summary Condition Cross Reference, updated with all the new ACE Entry Summary (AE) codes and additional information, it said. Both documents can be found on CBP's ACE CATAIR webpage (here) under the "Draft Chapters for Future Capabilities" section.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 2, 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://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
CBP Officers at Miami International Airport seized 720 pieces of pirated jewelry, valued at the Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price of more than $6 million on June 16, said CBP (here). While inspecting the shipment, CBP officers realized that "the merchandise was imitation jewelry that bore a false, non-genuine copyright clearly piratical to the federally recorded copyright," CBP said. The jewelry, shipped from Hong Kong, featured Van Cleef & Arpels' copyrighted design.
A.N. Deringer, Inc. will participate in the Broker-Known Importer Program (BKIP), the company announced in a July 2 press release (here). BKIP will improve entry efficiency and importer compliance knowledge by allowing customs brokers to "leverage their relationships with importers and discuss CBP compliance obligations," enhancing government efforts "to address import compliance issues by using brokers as a force multiplier," Deringer said. CBP and the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America launched BKIP in May (see 1505140011).
CBP released the July 1 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 26), which contains the following ruling actions (here):