The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated March 16. The following headquarters rulings were modified recently, according to CBP:
Notable CROSS rulings
Tubing with two straight and two concave sides is not square or rectangular, and isn’t subject to antidumping duties on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Mexico (A-201-836), the Commerce Department said in a recent scope ruling. Made by Maquilacero for intermediate bulk container cages, the tubing does not have two sets of parallel sides and four right angles, as required to be covered by the AD duty order, Commerce said.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated March 3. The following headquarters rulings were modified recently, according to CBP:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Feb. 18. The following headquarters rulings were modified recently, according to CBP:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Feb. 10. The following headquarters rulings were modified recently, according to CBP:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Feb. 8. The following headquarters rulings were modified recently, according to CBP:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Jan. 31. The following headquarters rulings were modified recently, according to CBP:
CBP published several thousand prospective rulings in 2020 on its Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) database. The agency issues its rulings from either the National Commodity Specialist Division in New York, which handles issues like classification, country of origin, marking and preferential treatment, or the Office of Regulations and Rulings at CBP headquarters in Washington, D.C., which may also decide other issues, such as valuation, drawback, exclusion order enforcement and liquidation.
CBP published notices in the Customs Bulletin revoking or modifying numerous rulings in 2020. These ruling revocations and modifications also apply to “any treatment previously accorded by CBP to substantially identical transactions.” When revoking or modifying a ruling, CBP is required by 19 USC 1625(c) to publish notice of the proposed action, and allow a period—generally one month—for comment before finalizing the action. An importer’s failure to advise CBP of “substantially identical transactions” or of a ruling not identified by CBP in these notices “may raise issues of reasonable care on the part of the importer or its agents for importations of merchandise subsequent to the effective date of this notice.” Rulings CBP revoked or modified in 2020 are as follows:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Jan. 21. The following headquarters rulings were modified recently, according to CBP: