A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 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 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 will host a Trade Fair to provide members of the trade community to speak one-on-one with representatives from U.S. and Canadian agencies that regulate imports and exports, CBP said in a trade information notice. The event will be Aug. 21 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Federal Center South, 4735 East Marginal Way S, Seattle, Wash.

CBP officers seized over 17 tons of marijuana at the Calexico East cargo facility July 25, setting the record for the largest narcotic bust for Calexico ports of entry, CBP said. A 2013 Kenworth tractor-trailer had entered the facility with cargo manifested as computer monitors, and an officer referred the conveyance for further examination through the port’s imaging system. After anomalies were detected within the cargo and a canine team alerted to pallets inside the trailer, officers removed 2,471 packages of marijuana hidden inside cardboard boxes behind pallets of computer parts. The packages contained a total of 35,274 pounds of marijuana, valued at almost $10 million. CBP seized both the narcotics and the conveyance.

CBP posted a new issue of its Frontline magazine, CBP's quarterly magazine on border security.

CBP issued its July 31 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 32), which contains notices of the following ruling actions:

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 July 29, 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 a July 29 version of its CF 1400 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Entrances) electronic query report of the Vessel Management System (VMS), in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by entrances. CBP also posted a version of its CF 1401 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Clearances) electronic query report of the VMS, in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by clearances.

CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of July 29. 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 small number of goods in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule don't have corresponding free trade agreement (FTA) tariff change rules (TCR), said CBP in a CSMS message. That's because the FTA were negotiated using an HTS that has since been modified -- in 2007 and 2012 -- and corresponding tariff change rules have not yet been implemented, the agency said. Until the rules "are implemented, manufactures of affected goods seeking to perform a TCR origination analysis should perform the operation classifying both the good and its materials in accordance with the most recent HTSUS that has both the tariff item and the corresponding TCR," it said. The certification should include the current HTS number the HTS number used to perform the TCR, it said.