A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 15, 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 June 15. 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.
In the June 10 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 23) (here), CBP published notices that propose to revoke or modify rulings and similar treatment for the tariff classification of showerheads and grader systems.
CBP posted a list (here) of forms for other agencies that will be required through the Document Image System as of the coming Automated Commercial Environment deadline. Most of the forms listed will be required within DIS as of Nov. 1, when all entry summary and release filing will be required in ACE. The other forms listed will be available in DIS beginning January of 2016, said CBP. The list also notes whether the specific forms are required at entry, required for post release and upon request or required for export.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 11-12, 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 the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP's Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers with the Miami Seaport Trade Enforcement Team confiscated 11,165 counterfeit watches valued collectively at about $2.8 million, CBP said in a press release June 12 (here). The watches originated in China and were intended for distribution in Florida. Upon arrival in Miami, the OFO officers noticed the counterfeit watches "did not appear to be of the quality consistent with the watches that are normally manufactured by the trademark holder," said CBP.
In the June 10 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 23) (here), CBP published notices that propose to revoke or modify rulings and similar treatment for the tariff classification of footwear and planters made from coconut fibres.
Numerous Importer Security Filings did not process June 13 and 14, said CBP in a CSMS message (here).
"The processing of all the messages from this outage has been stopped and now all current message processing should be back to normal," said CBP. ISF filers that didn't get a response during the outage should resubmit the filing, said CBP.
The members of the World Customs Organization elected Ana Hinojosa, CBP deputy assistant commissioner in the Office of International Affairs, as director of Compliance and Facilitation during the June 11-13 WCO Council meeting, said the WCO in a press release (here). Hinojosa's five-year term comes at an important time at the WCO, which will help implement the World Trade Organization's Trade Facilitation Agreement (see 1505070040). Two other directors were elected, the intergovernmental body said. Ping Liu of China was elected as director for Tariff and Trade Affairs and Ernani Checcucci of Brazil won the election for director of Capacity Building, said the WCO. Zouhair Chorfi of Morocco was also re-elected as chairperson of the Council and the WCO added Palestine as its 180th member, it said.