U.S. Customs and Border Protection has published its annual trade and travel report for fiscal year 2022, which includes the following statistics of interest to the trade community.
Imports
- processed 39.1 million entries and 33.4 million cargo containers carrying $3.35 trillion in goods
- collected $111.9 billion in duties, taxes, and fees (up 19.3 percent from FY 2021 and 117 percent over the past five years)
- assessed more than $49 billion in Section 301 tariffs on imports from China (up 13 percent from FY 2021), nearly $2.6 billion in Section 232 duties on steel, $736 million in Section 232 duties on aluminum, and $314 million in Section 201 duties on washing machines and parts and solar panels and goods
De Minimis
- the value of de minimis shipments (those valued at $800 or less) dropped by 11 percent
- registered about $2.5 billion in cost savings associated with electronic clearances under the Entry Type 86 test, which enables customs brokers and self-filers to electronically submit de minimis entries via the Automated Broker Interface, including those subject to data requirements of partner government agencies for clearance
- received more than 466 million filings under the Entry Type 86 test and the Section 321 data pilot, which aims to improve CBP’s ability to identify and target high-risk e-commerce shipments
Forced Labor
- issued six new withhold release orders and two new findings, bringing the total numbers being enforced to 54 and 9, respectively
- identified 3,605 shipments valued at $816.5 million for forced labor concerns, including 1,592 shipments valued at nearly $500 million under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
- received seven petitions to modify or revoke a WRO but only modified one
Cargo Processing
- jointly inspected goods with Mexico at 12 operational unified cargo processing locations along the southern border, resulting in a 50 percent or greater reduction of border wait times and a 99 percent trade compliance rate
- unified cargo processing with Mexico could be expanded in 2023 and CBP is discussing with Canada a potential operational test for the northern border
CTPAT
- completed 1,467 validations to certify that CTPAT partners both implemented and followed the updated minimum security criteria
- accepted 133 authorized economic operator validation certificates from foreign mutual recognition partners
- suspended 101 CTPAT partners and removed 127
- signed mutual recognition arrangements with Uruguay and Brazil, bringing the total number of MRAs to 16
- officially launched CTPAT Trade Compliance after the trusted trader pilot was completed and the importer self-assessment program was integrated into the CTPAT trade compliance branch
AD/CV
- assessed about $3.6 billion in AD/CV deposits on $37.4 billion worth of imports subject to AD/CV duties
- levied more than $28 million in monetary penalties on importers for fraud, negligence, and gross negligence with respect to AD/CV requirements
- recovered more than $189 million in AD/CV duties owed as a result of entry summary reviews
- identified more than $447 million in AD/CV discrepancies and collected $15 million of that amount
- five shipments with a domestic value of more than $691,000 were seized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for AD/CV violations
- enforced 28 new AD/CV duty orders, bringing the total to 662, more than double the number enforced in FY 2016
- received 68 new allegations of AD/CV evasion under the Enforce And Protect Act, initiated 35 new investigations, took interim measures in 31 investigations, issued final determinations of evasion in 53 investigations, and identified nearly $100 million in duties owed
IPR
- enforced 18,857 active recorded copyrights and trademarks, including 1,758 new and renewed recordation applications
- seized 20,812 shipments with intellectual property rights violations (down 23 percent from FY 2021)
- administered 143 active exclusion orders issued by the International Trade Commission following Section 337 investigations of IPR infringement
- conducted a pilot with several companies that tests the viability of data sharing with major brands to better target and seize imports of counterfeit and pirated goods and other IPR violative goods
Product Safety
- conducted 9,214 seizures of products posing health and safety risks valued at more than $125 million
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