U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of February 3, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. These messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a draft implementation guide for the X12 Status Notification Transaction Set (350) for use in a Rail Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment, containing format and data contents information. The transaction set can be used by CBP to supply carriers, terminal operators, port authorities and service providers with cargo release and cargo hold information for import shipments. It can also be used by CBP to provide exporters or their agents, carriers, and service providers with information pertaining to export shipments.
In U.S. Customs and Border Protection's January 2012 Trade Account Owner (TAO) Update, CBP stated that the M1 pilot (e-Manifest: Rail and Sea) was currently underway, with the first Automated Broker Interface (ABI) filer to join the pilot during the week of January 30th. However, CBP sources now state the first ABI filer will join the pilot a week later, during the week of February 6, 2012.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of February 2, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. These messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated list of the interest rates (updated for the first quarter of 2012) for additional duty payments owed to Customs as a result of reconciliation. CBP notes that when a reconciliation results in additional monies owed CBP, the payment must be made with interest, calculated by the filer using the rates provided in the list. For January 1 - March 31, 2012 the rate is 3%. (See ITT's Online Archives 12011357 for summary of the first quarter 2012 IRS interest rates for over payments and underpayments of customs duties.)
This summary report highlights the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels1 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” It also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.”
On February 2, 2012, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the record-breaking results of a nationwide enforcement operation targeting vendors selling counterfeit game-related sportswear throughout the country. The initiative, dubbed Operation Fake Sweep, commenced October 1, 2011 and has seized 42,692 items of phony Super Bowl-related memorabilia, along with other counterfeit items, totaling more than $4.8 million. ICE also seized an additional 22,570 items of counterfeit merchandise and clothing representing other sports leagues, including Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League. Agents also targeted illegal counterfeit imports into the U.S. and seized 307 websites engaged in counterfeiting and piracy online. This represents the 10th phase of "Operation In Our Sites," which has seized a total of 669 domain names since it was launched in June 2010.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that it is aware of a temporary disconnect between an ABI entry’s paperless release and its associated AMS bill that occurred 00:00 to 01:00 EST on the mornings of January 19th, 25th, 26th, and 27th. In the first hour on those days, entries which received a Paperless Release selectivity result transmission (RR) did not trigger a release posting in AMS (e.g., a ‘1C’ posting). CBP has manually posted the 1C release for the shipments. The carrier and terminal operators will see the 1C posted from the HQ port code (9900).