CBP Seattle provided new contact information for the port's entry branch and commodity teams due to retirements and new staff members, said CBP Seattle in a Trade Information Notice.
CBP Portland selected Terminal Transfer as the Portland, Ore., area centralized examination station (CES), said CBP Portland field office in a trade bulletin. Terminal Transfer is located at 15745 N. Lombard St., Portland, Ore. 97203. The agreement between CBP and Terminal Transfer is effective for five years beginning Feb. 28, the bulletin said.
Georgetown Law School posted presentations and articles related to the International Trade Update scheduled for Feb. 28 and March 1. The materials include several legal articles discussing various facets of international trade, such as:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Feb. 20, 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 a CSMS message announcing the issuance of Harmonized System Update 1302 on changes to the 2013 Harmonized Tariff Schedule. This update contains 941 ABI records and 102 harmonized tariff records. This update contains modifications made as a result of the USDA sugar certificate automation process.. The modified records are currently available to all ABI participants and can be retrieved electronically via the procedures indicated in the CATAIR. Contact Jennifer Keeling via email at Jennifer.Keeling@dhs.gov for all other questions.
CBP will begin sending out agency-wide furlough notices of up to two weeks in mid-March if the planned spending cuts of sequestration take effect March 1, said the National Treasury Employees Union. CBP told NTEU it will need to "make $754 million in cuts from March 1 through the Sept. 30 end of the current fiscal year," said NTEU in a press release.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Feb. 19, 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 Feb. 19 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 Feb. 19. 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.