CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of July 26, 2010. 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 has posted Amendment 51 to the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements document. The following sections were revised: Daily Statement, Foreign Trade Zone, Appendix B (Valid Codes), and Appendix P (FTZ Error Messages).
CBP has posted the minutes from the April 7, 2010 meeting of COAC’s Intellectual Property Rights Subcommittee. Most of the issues discussed at the April 7, 2010 meeting were also discussed at subsequent COAC Committee and IPR Subcommittee meetings. During the discussion of a planned IPR Importer Self-Assessment program component, a Subcommittee member asked CBP why 20 companies have withdrawn from ISA. CBP responded that the withdrawals were due primarily to bankruptcy. At the meeting, Subcommittee members also expressed concerns that if gray market importers become ISA-IPR certified it could allow counterfeits to be introduced. CBP also responded favorably to a suggestion by a Subcommittee member that e-Allegations be reviewed as part of the control process for an ISA-IPR program.
An overview of a number of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, is provided below. (Note that the complete message is only available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)
CBP has posted the U.S. Border Patrol Weekly Blotter for July 15 - 21, 2010. The Blotter provides information on Border Patrol activities during the specified week.
CBP has posted the following Trade Support Network GIF:
The Port of Long Beach issued a news release stating that since 9/11, seaport security has been an area of great interest to the public. The Port of Long Beach has made strides in recent years to upgrade its security systems and develop new technologies, including new radiation scanners (Advanced Spectroscopic Portals), designed to better protect seaports from nuclear threats. This summer the Port’s Piers A and J facilities became among the first shipping terminals in the nation with the scanners.
CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that it is currently experiencing a problem with creating a new ACE report and modifying existing reports. The “canned” ACE reports are working correctly. CBP will be delivering a production repair on Tuesday evening, July 27, 2010.
CBP has issued a CSMS message announcing the discontinuation of the Drawback Diskette Filing Program because it is no longer able to support security measures to protect CBP automated systems. (The drawback diskette program was implemented in October of 1994 and the drawback program was fully automated in 1995.)
In the July 14, 2010 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 44, No. 29), CBP published a notice that revokes or modifies certain rulings in order to correctly classify the product described below.