Starting at 5 a.m. EDT on July 25, CBP will require importers and brokers to include an estimated date of arrival data element for all entry Type 86 submissions in ACE, according to a July 24 CBP message. CBP will host an online post-deployment support call for trade users. The call will occur via Microsoft Teams on July 30 at 1 p.m. EDT. Technical questions related to this update should be sent to a user's assigned client representative. Other questions related to cargo control and release should be directed to CREM@cbp.dhs.gov.
CBP plans to enforce the $800 daily aggregated limit for de minimis shipments as a new functionality of the ACE platform.
Industry players and a law professor argued that the International Trade Commission's power to stop imports that are found to be infringing on domestic patents has become a form of blackmail by foreign companies against domestic companies, and that its original reason for being is no longer true.
Minsu Fang, a Chinese national, was indicted for allegedly conspiring to import what the U.S. government believes to be "the largest amount of fentanyl precursors found in the Southern District of Texas and one of the largest in the country," DOJ announced July 22.
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CBP will deploy on Sept. 29 a new ACE functionality to enforce the $800 daily aggregated limit for de minimis shipments, it said in a CSMS message. The “enhancement will automate the enforcement of the Section 321 requirements by implementing a validation in ACE to ensure that an appropriate party does not receive Section 321 clearance for more than an aggregated value of $800 in shipments on a given day,” CBP said in its most recent ACE development schedule (see 2407020007). “CBP will publish an information notice with more details soon,” it said.
The Treasury Department published its spring 2024 regulatory agenda for CBP. The agenda continues to list a proposed rule to amend CBP’s regulations on the entry of “certain low-value shipments not exceeding $800 that are eligible for an administrative exemption from duty and tax.”
Starting July 25, CBP will be requiring all Entry Type 86 submissions in ACE to include an estimated date of arrival, the agency said in a July 17 CSMS message.
The Commerce Department on July 12 released a proposed rule updating various aspects of its antidumping and countervailing duty regulations. The agency said the changes largely "codify existing procedures and methodologies" and also "create or revise" provisions related to the "collection of cash deposits," use of AD rates on nonmarket economy nations, calculation of an all-others' rate, respondent selection and "attribution of subsidies received by cross-owned input producers and utility providers to producers of subject merchandise."
The Court of International Trade in a confidential July 15 order denied customs broker Seko Customs Brokerage's application for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against CBP's temporary suspension of the company from the Entry Type 86 pilot and the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program. Judge Claire Kelly said she intends to issue a public version of the opinion "on or shortly after" July 23, giving the litigants until July 22 to review the confidential information in the decision (Seko Customs Brokerage v. U.S., CIT # 24-00097).