Customs and Border Protection's Office of Information and Technology said it assembled a list of companies/persons offering data processing services to the trade community for the Automated Broker Interface (ABI). It said inclusion on the list doesn't constitute any form of an endorsement by CBP about the nature, extent or quality of the services that may be provided.
Drawback
A duty drawback is a refund by CBP of the duties, taxes, or fees paid on imported goods, which were imposed upon importation as prescribed in 19 U.S.C. 1313(d). More broadly, a drawback also includes the refund or remission of other excise taxes pursuant to other provisions of law.
The Court of International Trade remanded the results of the International Trade Administration’s initial remand of the 2005-06 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India (A-533-820). CIT sustained the ITA’s remand redetermination of Indian intervenor-defendant Essar’s duty-drawback claim in response to domestic plaintiffs’ arguments, as well as its decision to use invoice date as the date of sale, rather than the date of the letter of credit, as it had in the original final results. However, CIT remanded the initial remand results (i) for application of the ITA’s new policy on adjusting cost of production in accordance with the adjustment to Essar’s export price resulting from its duty-drawback claim, and (ii) to allow for the correction of a ministerial error discovered by Essar and agreed to by the ITA. CIT says that the ITA has until May 25, 2012 to amend and correct the initial remand results. (Slip Op. 12-48, dated 04/11/12, Judge Aquilino)
Officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently stated that importers who have not received a Generalized System of Preferences SPI “A” refund by March 31, 2012 should assume that the claim “fell through the cracks” and file a written refund request by the April 18, 2012 deadline to ensure those refunds are received.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that it will conduct the next Customs Broker License Examination on Monday, April 2, 2012.
The Federal Maritime Commission has posted Commissioner Mario Cordero's remarks at the January 26, 2012 World Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Fuels Conference. He noted that there was a need for the use of LNG fuel to reduce emissions from the international maritime shipping industry. Despite challenges on the availability and use of LNG, he stated he is optimistic with the present scope of the environmental agenda and that the industry has high expectations for LNG as a clean fuel alternative. Lastly, he highlighted recent use and development of clean alternative fuels, such as with the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach's Clean Trucks Program.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a short, summarized timeline of ACE trade functionality that spans the years 2003 through 2012 and beyond.
In the January 25, 2012 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 5), CBP proposes to correct the reasoning in two rulings and similar treatment on whether the blending of frozen broccoli and mixing of wine in a CBP bonded warehouse is a permissible manipulation under 19 USC 1562. The holdings of these two rulings are not proposed to change.
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau is requesting comments by February 27, 2012 on revisions to information collections on drawback of taxes on certain tobacco products and bond changes. TTB is proposing to revise its tobacco drawback information collection to consolidate it with a tobacco bond information collection. TTB is also proposing to revise its bond information collection to reflect revised regulatory section numbers.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which began processing GSP duty refunds in early December for entries made during the period of January 1, 2011 through November 4, 2011, now states that refunds have been issued for all automatic refund requests (i.e., for entries that were filed duty-paid via ABI with the SPI "A"), except for ones that "failed" this refund process, which are being sent to the ports where entry was made to be manually processed. The target date for CBP completing the refund process for the SPI "A" failed entries is the end of February 2012.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection for Field Operations in New York has issued an Informational Pipeline stating that, effective December 16, 2011, the JFK Entry Branch is responsible for processing all Refusal Notices issued by the Food and Drug Administration on entry summaries where the Harmonized Tariff Schedule number of the merchandise in question falls under the jurisdiction of a JFK Commodity Specialist Team (CST).