CBP will begin operations in three new Centers of Excellence and Expertise in April, said Deputy Commissioner David Aguilar at the March 6 Commercial Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting. The three CEEs opening in April are: Base Metals (Chicago), Industrial & Manufacturing Materials (Buffalo, N.Y.) and Machinery (Laredo, Texas). The remaining three, Consumer Products & Mass Merchandising (Atlanta), Apparel, Footwear & Textiles (San Francisco), and Agriculture & Prepared Products (Miami), are scheduled to open in June.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website March 5, 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 officers and import specialists assigned to the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport seized 1,500 handbags with fake counterfeit “Hermès” trademarks. Had the goods been real, the seized handbags would have an estimated manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $14,100,000. The merchandise, which arrived from China in two shipments, was seized by CBP officers on Feb. 12 and 26.
CBP said its Port of Baltimore office is closed March 6 due to a snow storm.
The CBP Commercial Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting scheduled for March 6 will go on as planned, despite a Washington-area storm that shut down the rest of the Federal Government . The meeting is the first of the 13th term of the COAC.
CBP posted a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) that outline the procedures and benefits of the mutual recognition program between the U.S. and the European Union. The program was recently implemented and is said to allow for better risk analysis through acceptance of the respective trusted trader programs -- Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) in the U.S. and Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) in the E.U. The FAQs say neither C-TPAT nor AEO customs brokers will directly benefit.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website March 4, 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 March 4 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 March 4. 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's New York Field Office will have its quarterly broker meeting March 6, it said in an informational pipeline. Agenda topics will include ACE issue and updates, review of current post entry amendment and protest procedures and trade fair entries, it said. The meeting will start at 10 a.m. at 1100 Raymond Boulevard, Newark N.J.