The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Dec. 26:
CBP “plans to continue discussions” with the trade about an agency proposal to create an ACE portal for small importers, a CBP spokesperson said this week. Mentioned in a report released ahead of the Dec. 11 meeting of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, the proposal is “one of several ACE 2.0 operational scenarios developed by CBP” that are “being reviewed with COAC to inform early planning decisions for ACE 2.0,” the spokesperson said. The COAC report didn’t provide any further detail on the small importer portal beyond the fact that it was discussed in a “single issue call” with the relevant working group. The CBP spokesperson declined to provide additional details.
DHS Homeland Security Investigations' congressional engagement led to the introduction of bills that would:
CBP has moved up the target date for when the agency expects to deploy an enhancement that could affect facilities handling low-value Section 321 shipments.
Aluminum extrusions exporter Kingtom Aluminio, which operates out of the Dominican Republic, brought a complaint to the Court of International Trade on Dec. 23 to challenge CBP’s finding that the exporter had used forced labor (Kingtom Aluminio v. U.S., CIT # 24-00264).
The Mexican government's IMMEX program, which allows duty waivers for temporary importation before export, changed last week to exclude finished clothing and textiles in Harmonized Tariff Schedule chapters 61, 62 and 63; quilts and comforters in 9404.40; and pillows and other bedding under 9404.90.
On Dec. 23, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 23, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
In its third ACE 2.0 test, run last month, CBP showed how an outside organization -- the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) -- can provide information to the EPA and CBP ahead of arrival, so that the government knows chemicals are legitimate.