CBP has issued the following news releases:
CBP has posted the weekly foreign currency exchange rate multipliers for the week ending July 16, 2010.
CBP has posted an updated version of its Public Automated Commercial System FIRMS (Facilities Information and Resources Management Systems) report that is organized by port code and alphabetically by company name.
CBP has posted an updated version of its CF 1400 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Entrances) - an electronic query report for CF 1400 of the Vessel Management System (VMS), in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by entrances. CBP has also posted an updated CF 1401 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Clearances) - an electronic query report for CF 1401 of the VMS, in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by clearances.
CBP has posted an updated version of its TRQ/TPL "threshold to fill" list, a quick reference to monitor TRQs and TPLs that are approaching their restraint limit or have filled their in-quota (low) rate. The list is divided into two sections: those that are at least 85% filled and those that are filled.
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of July 19, 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 issued a CSMS message stating that since Monday, July 19, 2010, FDA has been experiencing intermittent messaging issues which are affecting both ACS messaging and paper notice generation. CBP is actively working on a resolution and plan to send out the missing messages once the issue is resolved. FDA is requesting that the trade be patient and accept verbal admissibility decisions while CBP works to resolve this issue.
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 issued a notice providing information regarding its four drawback center locations (Chicago, Houston, New York/Newark, and San Francisco). CBP's notice lists each center and provides contact information for each one.
CBP has issued a memorandum regarding the USTR's recent announcement of country-specific reallocations of the fiscal year 2010 in-quota quantity of the TRQ for imported raw cane sugar. USTR recently announced country-by-country allocations of a second additional fiscal year 2010 in-quota quantity of the TRQ in the amount of 272,155 metric tons raw value in specified amounts to 25 countries. (See ITT's Online Archives or 07/08/09 news, 10070804, for BP summary.)