CBP has released its Sept. 25 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 38), which includes the following actions, including one ruling revocation:
CBP CROSS Rulings
CBP issues binding advance rulings in connection with the importation of merchandise into the United States. They issue the rulings to give the trade community transparency of how CBP will treat a prospective import or carrier transaction. Common rulings include the tariff classification, country of origin, or free trade agreement applicability of merchandise, among other things. These rulings are available in CBP's Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) database.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP's Office of Regulations & Rulings upheld a Feb. 9 Enforce and Protect Act determination that Legion Furniture evaded antidumping and countervailing duty orders on Chinese-origin quartz surface products, according to a notice released Sept. 11 by CBP (see 2402150013).
CBP’s Regulations and Rulings Division Affirms Earlier EAPA Decision on Lollicup USA’s Thermal Paper
The Regulations and Rulings division of CBP’s Office of Trade has affirmed a Feb. 5 notice of determination under the Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA) that Lollicup USA evaded antidumping and countervailing duty orders covering lightweight thermal paper from China (see 2402090019),
CBP will centralize drawback functions under one Center of Excellence and Expertise, the agency said in a Sept. 25 cargo systems message.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of Sept. 9-15 and 16-22:
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While a top CBP official didn't give any specifics on how many brokerages were suspended from a pilot that allows electronic clearance of de minimis packages (see 2405310054), he told attendees at an annual National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America conference not to "be afraid of that enforcement," as the brokers who were suspended were so lax that there wasn't even anything that the companies could argue about with CBP.
In the Sept. 18 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 37), CBP published a proposal to revoke ruling letters concerning certain wheels and hubs for trucks and trailers and the applicability of the generalized system of preferences to incandescent string lights.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 18, 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.