Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau are not included under recently deployed Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act requirements in ACE, CBP said in a recent CSMS message. Those customs territories are recognized under the separate country codes HK, TW and MO, respectively, CBP said. The UFLPA Region Alert took effect in ACE on March 18.
CBP will deploy the first phase of its new entry summary data requirements for aluminum countries of smelt and cast on April 10 in ACE, but the deployment will have “no impact on the trade community until the effective date of May 10, 2023,” CBP said in a CSMS message. The exception would be if filers “attempt to report data on the 54-record, Type=07,” CBP said. “Those filers will receive the following error: F777 error – ADDTNL DEC TYPE NOT YET EFF OR EXPIRED.” CBP recently delayed the effective date of the new entry summary data elements until May 10 to give the trade more time to prepare (see 2303300059).
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CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP is continuing work with a “pool of entry filers” to test automated processes “that can help entry filers identify potential errors” related to antidumping and countervailing duties, Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee member Matt Zehner said at the COAC’s March 29 meeting in Seattle. The processes could potentially allow the trade to correct entries with AD/CVD at a “much earlier stage in the process,” Zehner said. The COAC and CBP also are discussing how the trade community could be better informed with AD/CVD orders requiring an importer certification, and are looking to “facilitate the entry filing of that certification” so that the certifications are “evident in ACE,” he said.
CBP should extend the maximum in-transit time for merchandise from 30 to 60 days, the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee said in a recommendation adopted at its March 29 quarterly meeting. The extension would "harmonize that threshold across all modes" and help better accommodate movements requiring extra transit time, which would lessen the need to request extensions, the COAC said.
CBP is delaying by one month its upcoming requirement to submit data on country of smelt and cast on entry summaries for imports of aluminum and aluminum derivative products, it said in a CSMS message March 30. Previously scheduled to take effect April 10 in line with an executive order setting new tariffs on Russian aluminum, the new ACE requirements will now take effect May 10. The tariffs themselves will still take effect April 10, CBP said.
CBP is delaying new entry summary requirements to report the countries of smelt and cast for imports of aluminum and aluminum derivatives by 30 days to “allow additional time for the trade to update their software programming and systems to comply with these new reporting requirements,” CBP said in a March 30 CSMS message.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP’s interpretation of the drawback statute and programming of its ACE Drawback Module led to an "absurd" rejection of substitution unused merchandise drawback eligibility for an importer of civil aviation equipment that disregards the basic structure of the tariff schedule, Spirit Aerosystems said in a March 24 motion for summary judgment at the Court of International Trade (Spirit Aerosystems v. U.S., CIT # 20-00094).