A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website as of Aug. 1, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website as of July 31, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
CBP said the 2012 Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Conference is scheduled for Sept 24-26, in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. A nominal registration fee will be charged and further information will be available soon on this website, said CBP. Due to the popularity of the C-TPAT Conference, there will be a limit of two representatives from the same company enforced in order to enable a wide variety of companies to participate. Registration will open on August 7, 2012. The 2012 East Coast Trade Symposium is scheduled for Sept. 27-28.
CBP issued its Aug. 1 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 32), which contains 5 notices of the following ruling actions:
A former San Diego-area CBP officer was sentenced to 115 days in federal prison, after a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), said ICE in a press release. Dario Tomas pleaded guilty in June to wire fraud after admitting he swindled $240,000 from two victims as part of a financial scheme while working for CBP in Korea in 2007. Tomas admitted to falsely promising the two investors their money would go toward building a computer training school in the Philippines. Tomas later admitted he lost the money gambling. Tomas was arrested in 2010 by special agents with ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) assigned to the agency's attaché office in Manila. Tomas was then extradited to South Korea where he served a two-year prison term for the offense. In April, Tomas was released from prison in South Korea and deported to the U.S. to face federal fraud charges brought in Southern California. Tomas was also ordered to pay $240,000 in restitution to the two victims.
CBP said officers and import specialists from the Import Specialist Enforcement Team (ISET) at the Laredo Port of Entry recently seized two priceless Egyptian sarcophagi-type artifacts. The artifacts, two sarcophagi, one adorned with a wooden mask with glass eyes and the other with a standing lady of painted stucco over linen, were found to be the rightful property of Egypt.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP posted a July 31 version of its CF 1400 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Entrances) electronic query report of the Vessel Management System (VMS), in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by entrances. CBP also posted a version of its CF 1401 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Clearances) electronic query report of the VMS, in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by clearances.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP said in a Federal Register notice Aug. 1 the following individual Customs broker licenses and any and all associated permits have been canceled due to the death of the broker: