A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 16, 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 CBP's ADCVD Search page.
International mail can’t benefit from exemptions from reciprocal tariffs for subheadings listed as exempt in the executive order that set the tariffs, CBP said in an update to its FAQ on e-Commerce. “Exemptions listed under ANNEX II of EO 14257 do not apply to International Mail,” the agency said. CBP didn’t immediately comment.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 15, 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 CBP's ADCVD Search page.
As the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee winds down amid CBP's plans to restructure the format to realign COAC with CBP's focus on national security, the protection and promotion of domestic industry, and the closure of “revenue and enforcement gaps” caused by unfair trade practices (see 2507010077), the Intellectual Property Rights Process Modernization Working Group within COAC's Intelligent Enforcement Subcommittee urged CBP to continue to protect intellectual property rights.
To facilitate the flow of information between ACE and foreign-trade zones and bonded warehouses, the foreign trade/warehouse working group with the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee is offering 18 recommendations to CBP ahead of COAC's quarterly meeting on Sept. 17.
The working group charged with developing initiatives to bolster the work of CBP's Centers of Excellence and Expertise outlined a number of areas where CBP should continue its work, in a list of recommendations provided ahead of COAC's Sept. 17 quarterly meeting.
As CBP winds down the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee in its current iteration (see 2507010077), the COAC's de minimis working group offered proposed recommendations to CBP to bolster entry processing in ACE amid the end of the de minimis exemption on Aug. 29. These recommendations include treating postal shipments similarly to how CBP handles low-value shipments via other transportation modes.
CBP may expand its National Customs Automation Program to test pipeline oil from Canada and Mexican steel in 2025, as well as test natural gas, food safety and medical devices under the heading of import processing in 2026, according to an issue paper prepared by CBP for the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee's Sept. 17 meeting.
CBP is planning to release a separate forced labor portal in FY 2026 that importers will be required to use, according to a document the agency prepared for the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee's forced labor working group ahead of the COAC's Sept. 17 meeting.