CBP will deploy the new entry type 86 for Section 321 shipments in ACE on Sept. 28, rather than the previously planned August date, the agency said in an updated deployment schedule. A Federal Register notice on a test for the entry type is expected soon (see 1905300050). Other changes mentioned in a CSMS message were the deployment dates for Collections Release One and the Modernizing e214 Online Admission Process, which were previously scheduled but are now not finalized. An antidumping and countervailing duty redesign was also added, with a "target deployment" of Sept. 14.
Objections to the exemption of low value shipments from the Section 301 duties on goods from China demonstrates the need for a change in law to allow for de minimis exemptions for goods withdrawn from foreign-trade zones, the 321 Coalition said in comments to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. The comments were part of the docket on the fourth tranche of Section 301 tariffs on goods from China, which are now on hold as the U.S. and China work toward a trade deal (see 1907010012). The coalition similarly said it would like to see federal law changed to allow for de minimis entry for goods from foreign-trade zones as part of CBP's customs framework review (see 1902140022).
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CBP would like to use the ongoing discussion around the 21st century customs framework (see 1903040023) as a way to review some of the most basic ways the agency looks at trade, said Thomas Overacker, CBP executive director, Cargo and Conveyance Security on June 28 while at the American Association of Exporters and Importers Annual Conference in Washington. Hypotheticals mentioned by CBP officials as discussion starters included a rewrite of the entry language in 19 CFR 141 and whether drawback remains a necessary program.
CBP will fully transition to its new Cargo Systems Messaging Service platform on July 1, it said in a CSMS message posted to the new platform. The message, which was not posted to CBP’s legacy system, says CBP will no longer update the old website after June 30, though it will remain available as an archive until Sept. 30, 2019, when the old system will be fully shut down.
CBP is planning to start a new pilot program related to e-commerce alongside the long-planned pilot for a new entry type for low-value shipments, said Laurie Dempsey, director of the intellectual property rights and e-commerce division at CBP. There's a "new pilot in the works related specifically to e-commerce," she said. "I don't have a lot of details to share with you at this point, but that also is taking a look at data in the e-commerce space and there will also be a Federal Register notice published around the same time as the Type 86," she said. Dempsey spoke June 27 while at the American Association of Exporters and Importers Annual Conference in Washington.
Suspension of liquidation and antidumping duty cash deposit requirements will take effect June 18 for imports of strontium chromate from Austria (A-433-813), after a correction to the Commerce Department's preliminary determination caused rates to increase above zero for Austrian exporters. Commerce had found no dumping in its May 17 negative preliminary determination, but the amended preliminary determination causes rates for Austrian exporters to rise above the de minimis threshold for AD duty investigations.
The International Trade Commission is launching an investigation into possible additions and removals of products from the Generalized System of Preferences program, it said in a June 7 press release. Conducted in response to a request from the U.S. trade representative, the investigation will inform USTR’s decisions on product eligibility in the ongoing 2018 GSP annual review. ITC and the USTR will also in the review consider whether to grant requests for de minimis and competitive need limitations waivers.
The New Democrats caucus, which includes the most pro-free-trade members in the party in the House of Representatives, has released a lengthy list of things they want to see in exchange for their votes for the new NAFTA ratification.
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