CBP released its April 19 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 57, No. 15), which includes the following ruling actions:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website April 19, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website April 18, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
CBP is looking to expand the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) to include e-commerce, agency officials said at the 2023 Trade Facilitation and Cargo Security Summit on April 18. As part of that effort, CBP has begun to have conversations with a subsection of members of the Section 321 data pilot to better understand e-commerce and how it compares with a traditional supply chain, Bryant Van Buskirk, director of CBP's Los Angeles CTPAT Office, said.
CBP is taking steps to automate its detention processes with a focus on shipments detained for forced labor, said Lisa Santana Fox, director of CBP’s Fines, Penalties and Forfeitures Division. The effort follows December recommendations from the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, which said CBP should develop a single automated system for its detention and seizure process (see 2212080030).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP signed mutual recognition arrangements with the customs agencies of Guatemala and Colombia on April 18 during the agency’s Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Summit, CBP said in a news release. The deals provide for the U.S. to recognize Guatemalan and Colombian Authorized Economic Operator trusted trader programs, and vice versa.
CBP in March identified 400 shipments valued at more than $122.7 million for further examination based on the suspected use of forced labor, including goods subject to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and withhold release orders, the agency said in its most recent operational update. That's close to February's total of 481 shipments valued at more than $109 million (see 2303150067). CBP also seized 1,798 shipments that contained counterfeit goods valued at more than $335 million, and completed 29 audits that identified $24.7 million in duties and fees owed to the U.S. government for goods that had been improperly declared, the agency said.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
When most people think of counterfeits in the U.S., they think of luxury fashion -- purses and watches -- but CBP also is concerned about safety issues from counterfeit medicines, sunscreen, baby formula and poorly made electronics whose lithium-ion batteries can cause fires.