A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Nov. 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 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.)
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Nov. 12. 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.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Nov. 8, 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.)
CBP posted its draft agenda and 23 other documents for the upcoming Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection (COAC) meeting on Nov. 15, which include the results of the 2013 trade efficiency survey, draft recommendations, and other documents on trade modernization, the global supply chain, trade enforcement and other topics. The draft agenda is (here). The trade survey (here) will be summarized in more detail in a future issue of ITT.
Scott Falk is now listed on CBP's website as chief counsel at the agency. Falk quietly took over in an acting role from Alfonso Robles in June (see 13061701). CBP didn't respond to a request for comment.
Some major questions on a requirement for proof of importer identity that should be obtained by customs brokers remain unresolved within a CBP Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) subcommittee focused on the issue, it said. The issue of which importer bona fides should be required information for customs brokers is being considered as part of CBP's trade modernization efforts, which include an overhaul to the regulations for customs brokers in 19 CFR Part 111 (see 12062211). The COAC Role of the Broker Working Group started actively working on the bona fides issue in July, said a report from CBP released ahead of the Nov. 15 COAC meeting.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Nov. 7, 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.)
CBP seized $6.1 million in cocaine at the Veteran's International Bridge import lot in Brownsville, Texas, the agency said in a press release. The drugs were found by CBP within the structure of a flatbed trailer, said CBP.
CBP updated a notice to its website regarding its 2001 announcement that it would no longer be providing importers with free reports of entry summaries that have been flagged for reconciliation and would instead provide such reports on a fee-for-service basis only.
CBP is requesting comments by Jan. 13 for an existing information collection on forms for importer ID import records. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the burden hours. While CBP has previously discussed adding new information requirements to CBP Form 5106 (see 12062524), the notice doesn't make any changes to the information collected.