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 has issued a CSMS message detailing the arrival "process steps and conditions" of ACE M1 (e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail) for ocean carriers using both ACE M1 and the legacy Automated Manifest System (AMS). This new functionality deployed on December 14, 2011.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing that the 2012 TRQ for qualifying ethyl alcohol from Caribbean countries and Insular Possessions as provided for in HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter I opened on January 3, 2012.
On January 3, 2012, U.S. Customs and Border Protection updated its ACE ABI Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) for its Chapter on Entry Summary Create/Update in order to correct the Harbor Maintenance Fee (HMF) de minimis value in Entry Summary Filing - Usage Note (o). CATAIR Change Record for 2012 is available here. Entry Summary Create/Update CATAIR Chapter is available here. Download all sections of the CATAIR here.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that the 2012 annual user fee of $138 for each customs broker permit and national permit held by an individual, partnership, association, or corporation is due by January 20, 2012.
In the January 4, 2012 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 2), CBP published two notices that propose to modify two rulings and similar treatment regarding the NAFTA eligibility and country of origin of CoCo Peat and the tariff classification of a lighting fixture.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued notices on the 2012 tariff rate quotas (TRQs) for agricultural products described in HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter VIII, U.S. Notes 3 through 7. These TRQs opened on January 3, 2012 with the following in-quota (low-duty) quantity limits:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a QBT to announce the opening of the third, fourth and fifth Specialty Sugar tranches on January 11, April 11, and July 11, 2012 respectively, at 12 noon eastern time or its equivalent in other time zones. The quantity for each of these three tranches is 19,051,000 kilograms (kg).
In the January 4, 2012 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 2), CBP published two notices that propose to revoke two rulings and similar treatment regarding the tariff classification of children's costume vests and stacking drawers.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of January 11, 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.