CBP will add the ability in ACE for importers to file entries with the fifth group of exclusions from the first tranche of Section 301 tariffs on June 11, it said in a CSMS message. Filers of imported products that were granted an exclusion (see 1906030038) should report the regular Chapter 84, 85 or 90 Harmonized Tariff Schedule number, as well as subheading 9903.88.10, for products subject to Section 301 duties on products from China but that have been granted an exclusion by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. “Importers shall not submit the corresponding Chapter 99 HTS number for the Section 301 duties when HTS 9903.88.10 is submitted,” CBP said.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
India was removed as a Generalized System of Preferences beneficiary country on June 5. As a result, India is no longer exempt from the Section 201 safeguards on solar cells and residential washers and parts, CBP said in a recent CSMS message. CBP said it updated ACE with the changes on June 3 (see 1906040007).
With ACE not ready, customs bond insufficiency issues, and importers unable to take on financial responsibility for tariffs on Mexican imports, the customs brokers who work at the California-Mexico border asked CBP and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to delay implementation of 5 percent tariffs past June 10. The Pacific Coast Council of Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Associations sent a letter June 5 saying that its members are alarmed "that it will be impossible to comply, as the mechanisms for compliance are not available between now and June 10th."
CBP has yet to update ACE to reflect the delayed deadline for the Section 301 tariff increase, the agency said in a May 31 CSMS message. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced on May 31 that the previously planned June 1 tariff increase for affected goods from China would instead go into effect on June 15 (see 1905310070). "Importers entering subject goods on or after June 1, 2019 which were exported before May 10, 2019, and would be affected by this change, should consider waiting to file the entry summary pursuant to the ten day entry summary filing period," the agency said. "This will allow importers to file the appropriate duty rate with the entry summary when CBP updates ACE."
CBP issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP hopes to begin its second phase of implementation for its in-bond regulations in July, said Jim Swanson, CBP director of cargo and security controls, at the May 30 meeting of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee in Laredo, Texas. Beginning in mid-July at the earliest, and no later than the end of the month, CBP will begin mandating electronic reporting for arrivals, exports and diversions, though the agency will not at that time begin issuing liquidated damages, he said.
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: