CBP issued its July 2 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 48, No. 26), which contains the following ruling actions:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 1, 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.
With demand high for soccer apparel during the 2014 World Cup, CBP says its San Juan field office recently seized a consignment of counterfeit soccer uniforms. The shipment arrived from Hong Kong to the San Juan air cargo facility, containing boxes of soccer shirts and shorts that were destined to an address in San Juan. CBP said that an inspection revealed that the boxes contained fake uniforms of the Brazilian, Italian and Argentinian national teams that violated the intellectual property rights of Nike, Puma, and Adidas.
CBP Los Angeles said the Price Transfer Dominguez Centralized Examination Station (CES) is proposing changes to its fee schedule. In a public bulletin LA14-014 dated July 1, CBP LA says the CES plans to increase some fees, decrease other fees, and eliminate some fees altogether. Comments on the fee changes are due July 31. CBP says the port director will review comments and then decide whether to accept the revised fee schedule.
Automated Broker Interface (ABI) final daily statements for Automated Clearinghouse (ACH) credit payments made on July 1 will be delayed for a day as a result of a processing problem in the Automated Commercial System (ACS), said CBP in a CSMS message July 2. The agency says the payments have not yet been processed due to a problem with its ACH credit file from the bank in ACS. “We are aware of the issue and are working on a resolution,” said CBP.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 30, 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 30. 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.
Seattle Container Exam Station (CES) MacMillan Piper will be shutting down operations over the next two months, according to a CBP notice issued June 30. On July 5, CES MacMillan Piper will no longer be available as an option for agriculture inspections. The last day for all other CBP exam-designated cargo for the CES will be Aug. 15. The facility will close for good on Aug. 31, said CBP.
CBP has resolved an issue with its link with the Food and Drug Administration during the overnight hours. The problem, which started around 8:00 p.m. on June 30 according to a CSMS message (here), broke the connection between the Automated Commercial System and FDA’s OASIS system. As a result, submitters who filed via ABI/ACS didn’t receive prior notice confirmation and CBP was prevented from autochecking the prior notice confirmation for ABI/ACS filers, said CBP. In response, CBP declared a Prior Notice Contingency 1. The problem was resolved on the morning of July 1, but the issue “resulted in a processing delay and backlog of entries including Prior Notice submissions which are currently being processed as quickly as possible,” said CBP (here). “Please do not attempt to resubmit entries through ABI/ACS as this could cause further problems,” it said.