CBP Administrative Messages, Electronic Bulletin Board Notices, Etc
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a press release detailing the emergency interim measures being implemented at all land border ports in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and in El Paso, TX as a result of the detection and confirmation of adult Mediterranean Fruit Fly (ceratitis capiata, Medfly) in the municipality of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
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1. CBP Implements Emergency Measures in Response to Medfly Detection in Mexico
Among other things, CBP states that all commercial shipments of agricultural commodities on the Medfly host list will require: (1) a USDA phytosanitary certificate; and (2) a declaration indicating that the cargo originated outside the Baja area and was not packed in or transited through that area.
See future issue of ITT for additional details. (CBP Press Release, dated 09/24/04, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/press_releases/09242004.xml)
2. One Additional Snow Day for Ports in Alabama
CBP has amended an earlier administrative message in order to state that because the Alabama Ports of Mobile, Pascagoula, Gulfport, and Birmingham were closed an additional day (September 17, 2004) due to Hurricane Ivan, CBP is extending one to four (from three) additional days without penalty for any late-filed entries and payment of duties that were due on 9/14/04 - 9/17/04 for the ports of Mobile, Pascagoula and Gulfport, and one to two (from only one day) additional days for the Port of Birmingham. The new due date for payments on these statements will be 09/20/04 (from 09/17/04). (See ITT's Online Archives or 09/27/04 news, 04092750 for BP summary of 04-2081) (Adm: 04-2096, dated 09/27/04, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2004/2004-2096.ADM )
3. Miscellaneous CBP Messages on AD and CV Duty Actions
CBP has issued messages on a number of antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty actions, many of which (marked by an * in the action column) were previously published in the Federal Register by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and summarized in International Trade Today.
(The CBP messages marked with an * cover much of the same information as the ITA notices; however, CBP's messages often list the 10-character case number specific to each listed company(s). ITA notices only list the 7-character master case number. In addition, sometimes the master case number for CBP purposes (in parentheses, below, where applicable) differs from the ITA master case number.)
| Rescission of AD duty administrative review, in part |