A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 26, 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 and the Consumer Product Safety Commission stopped and seized two shipments of playground equipment from China found to have too-high levels of lead, said CBP in a press release. Both shipments were initially held in Detroit and later CPSC analysis found the goods to be unsafe for the U.S. consumer market, said CBP. The first shipment, destined for Minneapolis, had a declared value of $1,550 and the second shipment, destined for Canton, Mich., was declared at $4,691, said CBP.

Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated July 26 with 114 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 178,304. The most recent ruling is dated 07/26/2013.

Wooden framed mirrors imported from China then exported to Mexico, where they undergo alterations, and finally returned to the U.S. are eligible for preferential duty exemption status, according to a CBP June decision. The ruling addresses consideration of the mirrors under subheading 9802.00.50 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, which says items exported from the U.S. that are brought back into the U.S. after increasing in value are fully or partially duty exempt.

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 25, 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 add post summary corrections abilities within the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), providing summary data to all filers of all version of the entry summary effective July 27, the agency said in CSMS message (here). CBP on Aug. 10 will also deploy changes to ACE Reports making the latest entry summary information details available to current or previous owners of the entry summary, it said in a separate notice (here). As a result, "no separation of information between owner and semiprivate owner will occur," said CBP. The agency will publish notices in the Federal Register in the near future to announce the changes, it said.

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 24, 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 is unable provide further information as to the data elements and conditions through which CBP can share data from the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) with the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), said a CBP spokesman. "We are not able to provide more detail regarding the data elements and the conditions under which the FMC may use them beyond what is contained in the release," he said.

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 2012 that affected customs law.