CBP is requesting comments by Nov. 21 for an existing information collection related to drawback process regulations. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the burden hours.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Sept. 12-17, 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://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
The Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) for CBP will next meet Oct. 7 at 1 p.m. in Washington, CBP said in a notice.
The Customs Law Committee of the American Bar Association released its annual year in review, published in conjunction with the Southern Methodist University Law School. The article includes summaries of some of the major regulatory and court actions in 2013 that affected customs law.
CBP released its Sept. 17 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 48, No. 37). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent Court of International Trade decisions.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP Los Angeles/Long Beach will hold a trade forum on Sept. 29 at 9:30 a.m. to discuss agriculture procedures at the Port of LA/LB. The program will cover agriculture reimbursable overtime, Asian gypsy moth and animal product importation requirements. The presentation will be held at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport CBP Shoreline Building in Long Beach, Calif. Reservations are required, and will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis until a maximum of 120 attendees is reached. To register, call Harold Fox at (562) 366-5467.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Sept. 15 with 115 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 183,748. The most recent ruling is dated 09/15/14.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP is seeking nine volunteer filers to submit intellectual property rights authenticating data through the Document Image System (DIS), the agency said in Sept. 11 CSMS message. "Approved IPR authentication data may be submitted as documents via a readable PDF attachment to an email," it said. "IPR Authenticating data may be sent by shipment and is open in all shipping modalities. Participants will be chosen on a first come first serve basis and will be selected to ensure a range of non-partnership program industry participants and participation across industry segments, to include those who have previously experienced negative IPR violating exams." CBP hopes the process "may improve IPR targeting efficiencies, reduce the rate of negative IPR exams, facilitate authorized trade and increase CBP port productivity," it said. Within a year, CBP will look at the effect on negative exam rate, said the agency..