U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE on the Road" event schedule, which includes the following:
The Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit has affirmed an earlier judgment by the Court of International Trade that the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (CDSOA), often referred to as the "Byrd Amendment," does not apply to imports from Canada and Mexico.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice announcing the opportunity for interested parties to request administrative reviews by March 31, 2008 for the following antidumping and/or countervailing duty orders:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued an ABI Cargo Systems Messaging Service (CSMS) message announcing that the Automated Commercial System (ACS) has been programmed to accept Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA) (SPI J) and Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA) (SPI J) claims for eligible countries until December 31, 2008.
According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection message, the antidumping duty investigation of coated free sheet paper from Korea has been terminated, pursuant to the International Trade Commission's final negative injury determination.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of March 3, 2008. 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. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 03/03/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
The International Trade Administration and the International Trade Commission have each issued a notice initiating an automatic five-year Sunset Review on the antidumping duty order on non-malleable cast iron pipe fittings from China.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice stating that it is postponing the preliminary antidumping duty determinations on lightweight thermal paper from Germany and China by 50 days to May 6, 2008.
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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued an ocean and rail manifest Cargo Systems Messaging Service (CSMS) message inviting Master Vessel Operating Common Carriers (MVOCCs) and rail carriers to take a survey on future Automated Commercial Environment M1 (e-Manifest: Rail and Sea) capabilities.