U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently published information on its trade operations in fiscal year 2023, including the following statistics of interest to the trade community.
Imports
- processed 36.7 million entries (down 6.1 percent) and 36.6 million cargo containers (up 9.6 percent) carrying $3.33 trillion in goods (down 0.6 percent)
- collected $92.3 billion in duties, taxes, and fees (down 17.5 percent)
- assessed more than $38 billion in Section 301 tariffs on imports from China (down 22.4 percent), nearly $1.6 billion in Section 232 duties on steel (down 38.5 percent), $480 million in Section 232 duties on aluminum (down 34.5 percent), and $187 million in Section 201 duties on washing machines and parts and solar panels and goods (down 40.4 percent)
- processed about $869.8 billion worth of imports claiming a trade preference, including $646 billion under the U.S.-Mexico Canada Agreement
- seized 19,522 import shipments with intellectual property rights violations (down 6.2 percent)
- conducted 9,214 seizures of imported products posing health and safety risks valued at more than $125 million
De Minimis
- processed 1.07 billion de minimis shipments (up 55.6 percent) worth more than $50 billion
- registered about $3.0 billion (up about 20 percent) 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
- received more than 785 million filings (up 68.5 percent) under the Entry Type 86 test and the Section 321 data pilot, which aim to improve CBP’s ability to identify and target high-risk e-commerce shipments
Forced Labor
- issued one new withhold release order, modified three WROs, and modified one finding (there were 51 active WROs and eight active findings)
- stopped 3,605 shipments (up 22.5 percent) valued at $1.46 billion (up 78.8 percent) for forced labor concerns, including 4,029 shipments (up 153.1 percent) valued at about $1.42 billion (up 184 percent) under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
- since implementation of the UFLPA has denied 43 percent of stopped shipments, released 41 percent, and not yet taken action on the rest pending importer action or CBP review/decision
CBP Operations
- issued more than 6,400 rulings and decisions on the application of customs laws and regulations
- completed 435 audits (up 0.9 percent) and collected $114.5 million (up 47.4 percent) as a result of audit work
- tested an initiative that has successfully prevented and contained six cyberattacks targeting the trade community
Supply Chain Security
- 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
- screened nearly 14 million shipments destined for the U.S. under the Container Security Initiative, resulting in nearly 83,000 examinations and 774 seizures of violative goods
AD/CV
- collected about $3.2 billion in AD/CV deposits (down 11.1 percent)
- levied more than $61.1 million in monetary penalties on importers for AD/CV violations (up 118.2 percent)
- recovered more than $161.1 million in AD/CV duties owed as a result of entry summary reviews (down 14.8 percent)
- enforced 21 new AD/CV duty orders, an increase of three percent in the number of orders enforced, which has more than doubled since FY 2016
- identified more than $500 million in AD/CV duties owed via Enforce and Protect Act activity (up 400 percent)
- liquidated the final 4,900 shipments subject to the now-concluded Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act
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