Beginning at noon on Dec. 18, CBP will open registration for its East Coast Trade Symposium scheduled for March 6-7 at the Washington Hilton, the agency said. Registration is available (here). CBP postponed the symposium, previously scheduled for Oct. 24-25, due to the government shutdown (see 13101602).

CBP expanded its information pages on several free trade agreements, said CBP in a CSMS message. The FTA pages now include:

In the Dec. 18 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 50), CBP published a notice of revocation of ruling and treatment regarding the tariff classification of 3D TV glasses.

CBP is requesting comments by Feb. 18 for an existing information collections related to customs brokers. 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 Dec. 16, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)

Problem resolution inquiries related to air cargo at the Centralized Air Cargo Examination Facility (CACEF) in New York should be sent to a new email address as of Dec. 23, CBP New York said in a pipeline. The email address is nwk-aircargopru@cbp.dhs.gov. "Responses to all inquiries will be provided within one hour of receipt of the email," the notice said. The email subject line should indicate whether it relates to trade, agriculture or CACEF and must include Master and House Air Waybills, it said.

CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Dec. 16. This report 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.

CBP issued its Dec. 18 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 50), which contains the following two ruling actions:

The CBP Port of San Francisco warned the trade of potential difficulties following the "imminent shutdown of the only remaining fumigation facility in the Oakland area." CBP recently received word of the coming closure from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, it said in an information notice. The operator of the facility has decided to decrease and eventually stop all fumigations at the site, said CBP. "Containerized cargo entering the port containing commodities requiring mandatory fumigation will be adversely affected when the existing fumigation facility begins to scale down and eventually cease operations," said CBP. "As a result, arriving legitimate cargo requiring USDA mitigation (fumigation) may be refused entry and require re-exportation or destruction. "While there is no "firm date" for the closure, CBP and USDA will keep the trade apprised of developments, said CBP.

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Dec. 13, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)