| Title: | New ALB Certificate requirements for certain Canadian softwood lumber |
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| Date: | 2017-12-05 |
| To: | abi,edi,partner |
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The Department of Commerce (DOC) instructed U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that certain softwood lumber products certified by the Atlantic Lumber Board (ALB) as being first produced in the Provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, or Prince Edward Island from logs harvested in these three provinces are excluded from the scope of the antidumping (AD) duty investigation of softwood lumber from Canada (see DOC message number 7321302, dated November 17, 2017 and the Federal Register notice published on November 8, 2017 (82 FR 51806)). Filers must include the ALB certificate with each entry summary and the ALB certificate number must be identified on each electronic entry summary submission for such entries to be excluded from coverage by the AD investigation.
The instructions for filing the ALB Certificate and the ALB Certificate number with the entry summary are as follows:
1. Transmit the ALB Certificate via the Digital Imaging System (DIS) (ACE DIS Implementation Guide). Until such time that a specific ALB Certificate code is available, please use the CBP03 ‘Other’ code and also provide the government agency code ‘ECO’, for the Department of Commerce, Enforcement and Compliance.
2. The ALB Certificate number will be entered on the entry summary (AE) record identifier 52 (input) in the miscellaneous permit/license number field, using permit code indicator 11. Transmit the ALB certificate number without any dashes (i.e. 12-345-678 = 12345678). Follow the ACE ABI CATAIR formatting instructions for submitting a 52-record data element.
3. Importers of softwood lumber from Canada who do not submit the ALB certificate number should continue to submit the dummy SLA 2006 permit number ‘P88888888’ under permit code indicator 11 as specified in CSMS #15-000744 issued October 6, 2015. Importers who submit the ALB Certificate number should not submit the dummy SLA 2006 permit number.
Questions relating to the ABI system should be directed to your assigned ABI client representative.
For more information about the ALB certificate, see Federal Register notice 82 FR 51806, dated November 8, 2017 and DOC message number 7321302, dated November 17, 2017. At present, provisional measures in the companion CVD investigation have expired. Accordingly, there are currently no similar requirements related to the CVD investigation on certain softwood lumber from Canada. CBP will issue an updated CSMS message for AD and CVD after the conclusion of the investigations to reflect any updated instructions from DOC on this issue.