CBP will soon seek Office of Management and Budget approval for a series of recently announced changes to its Global Business Identifier pilot, according to a notice released May 27. That includes an expansion of identifiers used in the pilot, as well as of entities involved. Comments are due July 28, and summaries of the comments will be included along with the submission to OMB.
CBP announced in a May 27 cargo systems message that the ACE support biweekly trade call "has been discontinued until further notice." The agency didn't give a reason for the halt in service.
The Commerce Department slightly increased the antidumping duty rate applicable to some exporters of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from India (A-533-857), it said in a correction to a notice of final results of the antidumping duty administrative review for the period Sept. 1, 2022, through Aug. 31, 2023, originally published May 13. The agency had set a zero percent AD duty cash deposit rate for Surya Roshni Ltd., but erroneously stated that the “all-others” cash deposit rate was zero percent, it said. That “all-others” cash deposit rate, which applies to all Indian exporters that have never received individual rates for their exports of OCTG from India, should be 0.6%, Commerce said. (See 2505120010 for a summary of the original final results of this review.)
On May 22, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on raw honey from Argentina (A-357-823), which became effective April 14. The change is to correct ministerial errors in the calculations of the rates for entries of subject merchandise from one company during the period Nov. 23, 2021, through May 31, 2023.
The U.S. is the country of origin for platform software manufactured by Unifyia, according to a May 15 final determination announced via notice set for publication in the Federal Register.
Canada is the country of origin for two models of meeting tables manufactured by Global Industries, according to a notice released by CBP May 22.
CBP recently ruled which country would be the country of origin for Biomedix Selec-3 Multiple Drop Intravenous Product under five different scenarios, according to a notice released by the agency May 22
The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, is leading a delegation to Ottawa this weekend. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who led the effort to end 25% tariffs on Canadian goods, and Sens. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., also are going.