CBP has posted a notice providing details on the trade's ability to receive refund checks, resulting from overpayment of customs duties, taxes, and fees, electronically through Automated Clearinghouse (ACH). An ACH question and answer notice was also posted. (Notice and Q&A, dated 02/04/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/automated/automated_systems/ach/)

The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.

CBP has posted Amendment 32 to the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document. According to CBP, the CATAIR has been amended as follows:

The International Trade Administration has issued a notice announcing the opportunity for interested parties to request administrative reviews by March 2, 2009 for the following antidumping and countervailing duty orders.

CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) and tariff preference level (TPL) commodity report as of February 2, 2009. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, 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, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (Weekly commodity report available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)

CBP has issued a CSMS message on the implementation of the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA) for goods entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after February 1, 2009. Importers and brokers may file claims for preferential tariff treatment on goods that originate under the PTPA. These claims may be made at the time of entry summary by placing the SPI "PE" on the CBP Form 7501 as a prefix to the HTS item number for each line on which preferential treatment is claimed. The programming updates to the ACS allowing for automated processing have not yet been completed. Therefore, until further notice, importers claiming preference under the PTPA should file manual entries or file ABI entries at release with manual entry summaries. (See ITT's Online Archives or 02/02/09 news, 09020210, for BP summary of Proclamation 8341, which amended the HTS to implement the PTPA, etc.)(CSMS 09-000070, dated 01/30/09, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17456&page=&srch_argv=09-000070&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby)

According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection message, effective January 17, 2009, the International Trade Administration discontinued the suspension of liquidation for countervailing duty purposes for citric acid and certain citrate salts from China.

The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews:

CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that the ACE Certification Environment will be unavailable beginning 7:00 p.m. EST on January 29, 2009 through 6:00 a.m. EST on February 2, 2009. CBP later issued a CSMS message extending the unavailability of the ACE Certification Environment an additional day. The ACE Certification Environment is now projected to be available at 6:00 a.m. EST on February 3, 2009. (CSMS 09-000062, issued 01/28/09, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17448&page=&srch_argv=&srchtype=&btype=&sortby=&sby; CSMS 09-000071, dated 01/30/09, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17457&page=&srch_argv=&srchtype=&btype=&sortby=&sby)

The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.