CBP has “adjudicated” a ruling that will allow manufacturers in foreign-trade zones to avoid Section 232 tariffs on aluminum and steel, as well as planned Section 301 tariffs on products from China, a CBP official said on the agency’s biweekly ACE conference call held June 21. FTZ manufacturing operations have up to now been required by Census Bureau and Commerce Department guidance to enter goods manufactured in FTZs as originating in the country that provided the goods’ highest value in inputs, even if those inputs are worth relatively little and for CBP purposes the country of origin should be the United States. While it hasn’t been an issue before, now that Section 232 duties are in place and Section 301 tariffs are coming it can result in those manufacturers being required to declare a good as subject to the extra tariffs even when the good is of U.S. origin. A ruling is coming that says to use “U.S.” as country of origin for such merchandise on entry documentation, the CBP official said. A search on CBP’s CROSS database indicates the ruling has not been published as of press time.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Reconciliation entry summaries may be sent to any port and will be processed by a Center of Excellence and Expertise, CBP said in a CSMS message. "If the importer is assigned to a Center, ACE will assign the Reconciliation to that Center, " CBP said. "If the importer has not been assigned to a Center but has previously filed Reconciliations, the importer will continue filing their Reconciliations entry summaries at their previously assigned Reconciliation Port of Entry with the appropriate Reconciliation team code," the agency said. "If the importer is new to filing Reconciliation entry summaries and is not assigned to a Center, ACE will assign team number 001 at the Port of Entry for filing. If needed, CBP personnel will reassign the Reconciliation team code to the correct Center for processing." CBP recommends that "payments for Reconciliation entry summaries be filed at the Port of Entry designated on the Reconciliation Entry Summary" because "payments made at another Port of Entry could slow down the process."
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
BALTIMORE -- There are some barriers to data sharing among NAFTA companies that would ease goods' flow across borders, but progress is steady, panelists said at the American Association of Exporters and Importers annual conference. Kim Campbell, founder of MKMarin, a Canadian trade services firm, said some of the problems with data sharing on Canadian exports is that Canada generally doesn't ask exporters to submit information if they're sending their goods to their southern neighbor. "We don’t actually collect export data into the United States," she said, and shipments from Canada to Mexico are often not tracked, either, because firms took advantage of the lack of reporting requirement for shipments south, as goods transited across the U.S.
The Fish and Wildlife Service recently clarified inspection requirements for shipments that include both plants and wildlife listed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, whether or not CITES-listed. The April 16 policy bulletin, posted to the FWS website on May 31, clarifies the application of a 2016 agreement between FWS and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service that allows FWS inspectors to validate such shipments, which has “led to some confusion as to which agency provides inspection,” FWS said.