The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice stating that at the request of the petitioners1, it is postponing until no later than June 17, 2004 (from April 28, 2004) its preliminary antidumping (AD) duty determination on wooden bedroom furniture from China.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued messages on a number of antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty actions, many of which (marked by an * in the action column) were previously published in the Federal Register by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and summarized in International Trade Today.
(a) preliminary AD rate of zero
The World Customs Organization (WCO) has issued an amending supplement (No. 4, dated August 2003) to the Harmonized System Explanatory Notes (ENs). (Although not binding on U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the ENs are followed by CBP whenever possible.) (This is Part V of a multipart series of summaries on this amending supplement. See future issues of ITT for additional summaries.)
FDA and CBP to Examine Whether FDA's PN Timeframes Can be the Same as CBPs Advance Cargo Information
Timeframes
In the April 7, 2004 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 38, No. 15), CBP issued notices (a) proposing to revoke a classification ruling on certain laryngectomy covers, and (b) proposing to revoke two classification rulings on industrial smokehouse apparatus. CBP states that it is also proposing to revoke any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions that are contrary to its position in these notices.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that the following vessel operating common carriers (VOCCs) have become Sea Automated Manifest System (AMS) operational:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a press release announcing that it and the Department of Commerce signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on April 7, 2004 to provide certain export validation information to the Mexican government for purposes of mutual border protection, export control, and the detection and deterrence of revenue fraud.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message amending one aspect of its original message that announced several changes that would be made to ABI and FDA software, effective April 14, 2004, to improve the process for filing FDA Prior Notices of imported foods.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a notice seeking comments by June 7, 2004 on a petition requesting that it issue mandatory fire safety standards for candles and candle accessories including candleholders.