U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an updated summary of changes to the June 2004 version of the Automated Export System (AES) Technical Interface Requirements (AESTIR). According to this summary, the most recent changes to the AESTIR are as follows:
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued messages on a number of antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty actions, many of which (marked by an * in the action column) were previously published in the Federal Register by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and summarized in International Trade Today.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) is amending two earlier notices of opportunity to request, variously, administrative reviews for certain antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders, and suspension agreements.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) duty and countervailing (CV) duty administrative reviews:
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a press release stating that CBP employs approximately 1,400 agriculture specialists (former inspectors of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service). According to the press release, in FY2004, CBP agriculture specialists intercepted more than 1.5 million prohibited items at U.S. ports of entries, including international airports, land borders, and international mail facilities, inspecting both commercial cargo and passenger/pedestrians. (Press release available at
The ITA states that if it does not receive, by the January 31, 2005 deadline, a request for the review of entries covered by an AD or CV duty order or suspended investigation listed above for the identified review period, it will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess AD or CV duties on those entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit of (or bond for) estimated AD or CV duties required on those entries at the time of entry, and to continue to collect the AD or CV cash deposit previously ordered.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) and the International Trade Commission (ITC) have issued various notices, each initiating automatic five-year sunset reviews on the above antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders.