Tim Warren

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A fee paid by BMW of North America to its parent company in Germany to help negotiate prices for car parts from North American vendors is not dutiable under transaction value, CBP said in a newly released ruling dated Dec. 15. BMW's lawyer at Lamb & Lerch asked CBP about the dutiability of the fee.

Importers will need to review entries made between Oct. 5, 2019, and Oct. 28, 2020, that were supposed to include third-country antidumping and countervailing duty case numbers that couldn't be added due to a problem in ACE, CBP said in a Feb. 2 CSMS message. The ACE glitch left filers unable to include any of 19 third-country case numbers with the entries, CBP said. The importers will have 60 days to rectify the issue for any affected entries, and failure to “take action within the sixty-day period may result in further actions by CBP,” it said.

CBP will allow for an additional day for filing entries that were due on Feb. 1 or 2 at the Ports of JFK and New York/Newark, acting Port Director Edward Fox said in an emailed notice. “As a result of this situation, we are extending one (1) additional day without penalty for any late filed entry summaries and payments of duties that were due on these days in the Ports of JFK and New York/Newark,” he said.

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CBP plans to propose some new requirements for importing low-value shipments, Craig Clark of the Office of the Commissioner, Office of Trade Relations, said during the virtual Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness (ACSCC) meeting Jan. 28. “We are taking steps to integrate the results of both the [Section] 321 data pilot and the Entry Type 86 test into a new Section 321 data collection process through a notice of proposed rulemaking,” he said. “Included in that NPRM is a requirement for mandatory security data elements for all Section 321 shipments, and that is going to be agnostic to the mode of transportation and will include international mail as well as additional mandatory data elements if an entry is filed,” he said.

CBP will use a “scalpel approach” to enforcement of the recently issued withhold release order on cotton and tomato products from China’s Xinjiang region (see 2101130053), Brenda Smith, CBP executive assistant commissioner-trade, said during a Jan. 27 event hosted by the Washington International Trade Association. “We are committed to taking a scalpel approach and are looking and continuing to gather information and ensure that our targeting is focused on the highest risk shipments,” she said. The WRO “will be a challenge to enforce” because of the amount of cotton that comes from the area, she said.

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President Donald Trump extended and adjusted the Section 201 safeguards on washing machines, he said in a Jan. 14 proclamation. The tariff-rate quotas on washers and washer parts will continue for another two years with some changes, he said. The safeguards were put in place in January 2018 and were originally to last three years (see 1801230052).