CBP will have an informational seminar on Antidumping and Countervailing Duty hosted by Alexander Amdur, AD/CVD Chief in CBP's Office of Trade, CBP said in a informational pipeline notice. The seminar will be at 10 a.m. July 31 on the 4th floor of 1100 Raymond Blvd., Newark, NJ 07102. Email Alice.Liakakos@cbp.dhs.gov to make a reservation. Email documents@brokerpower.com for a copy of the notice.
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) scheduled a mark up of several pieces of trade-related legislation on July 18. Among other things, the committee will consider that would give permanent normal trade relations status to Russia and repeal the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which has been in place since 1974 to restrict trade with communist countries. The Committee is to consider on Wednesday the Magnitsky Act sponsored by Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.).
The following are the trade-related hearings scheduled July 16-20:
CBP at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport discovered and seized 33,000 trading cards game sets in violation of Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Zexal trademarks in a shipment from China. CBP officers discovered the infringing shipment with the cards which, if genuine, the manufacturer’s suggested retail price of the shipment would have been $218,000.
CBP said in a CSMS message it is working on resolving slow cargo selectivity responses after hearing several reports of problems.
CBP's ACE team is continuing to work with the International Trade Data System (ITDS) and Office of Field Operations (OFO) to determine which forms will be added for use within the Document Image System (DIS), which is now in the first phase of a pilot. CBP released a series of questions and answers on the program. Phase 1 of DIS include documents for Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and National Marine Fisheries Service/ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NMFS/NOAA). CBP hasn't said when the next phase will start.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
CBP's Office of Information and Technology posted a list of companies/persons who have developed software applications for ACE electronic truck manifest and have been through CBP's testing process. Inclusion on the list doesn't constitute an endorsement by CBP about the nature, extent or quality of the services, which may be provided, it cautioned. CBP noted there are many additional authorized ACE electronic truck manifest filing services that aren't listed. The list is limited to the primary developers of software that assembles and formats data for transmission to CBP. It does not include authorized data processing services that incorporate, use or market the software products of the listed companies/persons to provide ACE electronic truck manifest filing services.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) introduced legislation, HR-6110, on July 12 aimed at improving CBP's classification abilities though educational seminars. The bill would establish the seminars at U.S. ports of entry to improve the ability of CBP personnel to classify and appraise articles that are imported into the U.S. The legislation would also help CBP personnel to identify and prevent the mislabeling and transshipment of articles, it said. CBP didn't comment.