CBP should develop a single automated system for its detention and seizure process, as well as a portal for rightsholders and importers to allow for communication with CBP when infringement of intellectual property rights is suspected, the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee said in recommendations adopted at its Dec. 7 meeting.

The House-Senate compromise defense bill does not include the Inform Consumers Act, an amendment that was part of the Senate bill, which would have required that high-volume sellers online be identified and reachable. Trade groups that represent intellectual property rights holders had hoped that the bill would become law this year since it had been part of a different House package and was in the Senate bill (see 2210260087).

Certifications must be completed and signed by Jan. 23 for entries since April 1, 2022, to avoid antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam recently announced by the Commerce Department in a preliminary anti-circumvention determination (see 2212020064), according to a notice set for publication in the Dec. 8 Federal Register.

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:​

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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 Port of Hidalgo, Texas, lacked the authority to reliquidate entries of mangoes from Mexico, CBP headquarters said in a Sept. 30 ruling, made public on Nov. 29. The ruling was in response to a protest filed on behalf of importer RB Logistics, which imported the mangoes in 2013, claiming preferential treatment under NAFTA. The port liquidated the entries, without change, in January 2014 but then reliquidated the entries with an increase in duties owed in February 2017.

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:​

CBP will in 2023 begin testing two projects under the DHS Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) “that will connect CBP with trade users,” the agency said in a document released ahead of an upcoming meeting of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee. The projects are being used to “verify some ACE 2.0 concepts” to inform CBP’s development of ACE 2.0, “which could begin as early as 2025,” CBP said.