CBP officers at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport discovered merchandise which led to a joint operation between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Los Angeles Police Department detectives, who on August 17, 2010, seized counterfeit “True Religion” jeans with a manufacturer’s suggested retail value of more than $6.2 million.
An overview of a recent antidumping and countervailing duty message posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number, period covered, and CBP message number, is provided below. (Note that the complete message is only available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of August 23, 2010. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, and tobacco; and certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs; etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying textile articles and/or other articles; the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics; etc.
CBP has posted an ACE ABI CATAIR Error Dictionary, a table containing detailed explanations of error messages for ACE entry summaries.
CBP has posted an updated version of its Public Automated Commercial System FIRMS (Facilities Information and Resources Management Systems) report that is organized by port code and alphabetically by company name.
CBP has posted the weekly foreign currency exchange rate multipliers for the week ending August 20, 2010.
CBP has posted the July 2010 Trade Support Network monthly activity report, which summarize the activity of all of the TSN committees and subcommittees for July. Most of the committees and subcommittees had no new activity or business to report for July. The Multi-Modal Manifest (MMM) Committee did conduct a full meeting on July 14, in conjunction with the CESAC meetings on July 12-13, 2010. The Committee's Task Groups met and briefed the full MMM Committee on the status of their business/requirement development activities at the July 14 meeting.
An overview of a number of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, is provided below. (Note that the complete message is only available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)
CBP has announced that registration for the second annual Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Northern Border Highway Carrier Conference that will be held in Niagara Falls, NY on August 31 -- September 1, 2010 will be closing at 12:00 p.m. on August 27.
CBP's Office of Information and Technology has posted an updated list of companies/persons offering ABI data processing services to the trade community.