CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated July 5 with 97 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 171,929. The most recent ruling is dated 6/29/2012 12:00:00 AM.
CBP said most ABI transactions submitted to the ACE Certification environment since the June 29 ACE Certification deployment are not processing. The exception is ABI in-bond transactions (Application identifiers QP and WP) which have been processing as expected, said CBP. The issue has not impacted ACE Production CBP is currently working on a fix but it will not be ready to deploy until early next week, it said in a July 6 CSMS message. As soon as the deployment date and time for the fix is established, a CSMS message will be issued, said CBP.
In the July 5, 2012 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 28), CBP published two notices that propose to revoke two rulings and similar treatment regarding the tariff classification of one ounce plastic cups and LED task light kits.
CBP issued its July 5 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 28), which contains 8 notices of the following ruling actions:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's web site as of July 5, 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 issued a CSMS message announcing the issuance of Harmonized System Update 1207 on changes to the 2012 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). This update contains 1,432 ABI records and 302 harmonized tariff records. Changes required by Presidential Proclamation 8840, To Modify Duty Free Treatment Under the Generalized System of Preferences, and for Other Purposes, effective July 1, are included as well. This proclamation is (here).
CBP said the deployment to ACE Production on July 7 is rescheduled for July 14, due to power outages in the Washington-area.
CBP posted documents on changes to the Customs and Trade Interface Requirements (CATAIR), CBP said in CSMS message.
CBP posted a document to its website that provides side-by-side comparisons of the following 18 U.S. free trade agreements and preferential trade programs: NAFTA; Chile (CFTA); Singapore (SFTA); Australia (AFTA); Israel (ILFTA); Jordan (JFTA); Bahrain (BFTA); Morocco (MFTA); Oman (OFTA); Central America-Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR); Peru (PTPA); Korea (UKFTA); Colombia (CTPA); Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA); Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA); Generalized System of Preferences (GSP); African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA); Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA); and Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA).