CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The link for the ACE Biweekly Trade Call will change starting Dec. 7, CBP said. The announcement, in a CSMS message Dec. 5, said that the links and dates can be found on the ACE Support Page. The dates scheduled through February are: Dec. 7, Jan. 4, Jan. 18, Feb. 1, Feb. 15, and Feb. 29. The call originally scheduled for Dec. 21 has been canceled. The meeting password will be ACE1.
The Environmental Protection Agency hydrofluorocarbons code is expected to be deployed to the ACE production environment no earlier than Jan. 6, CBP said in a CSMS message Dec. 5, the same date the HFC code deployed in the ACE certification environment. Another CSMS message will be sent out to confirm the production deployment date, CBP said. EPA expects another update to the "EPA supplemental to the CATAIR based on input from the Trade community during CERT testing," CBP said.
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee is set to recommend that CBP amend the ACE auto-matching parameters for in-bond shipments to "account for weight discrepancies when converting between kilograms and pounds." The proposed recommendation was laid out in a document released ahead of the COAC meeting on Dec. 13 (see 2312040050).
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CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The National Marine Fisheries Service will be updating its Seafood Import Monitoring Program to prohibit "aggregated harvest reports of Northern Red Snapper" regardless of vessel size, CBP said. The update, announced in a CSMS message Nov. 29, will be deployed no later than Dec. 20 in the ACE Certification environment, and no earlier than Jan. 20, 2024, in the ACE Production environment, allowing time for testing, CBP said.
Changes to an entry date due to CBP modifications of an entry summary don't affect the time of entry for the purposes of assessing Section 301 tariffs, CBP said in a ruling released by the agency Nov. 28.
The current scope of ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on aluminum extrusions from 15 countries would impose heavy costs on U.S. manufacturers and consumers, and as written would make it nearly impossible for CBP to administer and importers to comply, said a bevy of large multinational corporations and trade associations in comments filed recently filed with the Commerce Department.