Tim Warren

In the Jan. 9 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 3), CBP a notice of revocation of rulings and treatment regarding the duty-free treatment of reimported tires and camera parts.

Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Jan. 14 with 323 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 175,548. The most recent ruling is dated 1/9/2013.

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y) will be the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, said the office of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) Rangel will replace Jim McDermott (Wash.), who will move to the Health Subcommittee.

CBP issued a CSMS message announcing the issuance of Harmonized System Update 1301 on changes to the 2013 Harmonized Tariff Schedule. This update contains 27,646 ABI records and 5,357 harmonized tariff records. Modifications include changes associated with the recent Informal Value Change legislation. Adjustments were made to applicable tariff numbers that no longer require a formal entry, if the value exceeds $250. The modified records are currently available to all ABI participants and can be retrieved electronically via the procedures indicated in the CATAIR. Contact Jennifer Keeling via email at Jennifer.Keeling@dhs.gov for all other questions.

CBP outlined the requirements for electronic in-bond movement authorization (1D) freight status notification (FSN) messages that are transmitted to the Air AMS participant in custody of the cargo, in a CSMS message.

Reusable collapsible packing crates used by Yusen Logistics are considered Instruments of International Traffic (IIT), CBP said in a Jan. 9 ruling. Yusen sought CBP's opinion on whether the packing crates can be considered IITs and therefore exempted from entry filing requirements and duty payments. The ruling, HQ H234925, said the Japanese-made wood and steel crates meet the requirements for IIT designation.

The work of CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on antidumping/countervailing duty evasion enforcement resulted in penalties worth over $24 million, said CBP. The agency posted its AD/CV enforcement statistics for FY 2012. This the first year CBP tracked such statistics and it will continue to do so in the future, said a CBP spokeswoman.

CBP posted a slightly updated “Guidance for Certificates of Reimbursement” for antidumping (AD) duties that gives information on protests, the option for paperless filing using the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), and provides additional information regarding blanket certificates, related parties, deemed liquidations, and certificates for companion countervailing (CV) duties. The new version makes clear paper certificates are still acceptable. The update adds to the significant revisions CBP made to the guidance in March.

CBP New York scheduled quarterly broker meetings for March 6, June, 5, Sept. 12 and Dec. 4, it said in an Informational Pipeline. All of the meetings will be in the Main Conference Room, 1100 Raymond Blvd., Newark, New Jersey, beginning at 10 a.m.

CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Jan. 14. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, and tobacco; and certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, 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, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying textile articles and/or other articles; the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc.