CBP Administrative Messages, Web Postings, Etc
CBP has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of March 28, 2005. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 03/28/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
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1. Weekly Quota Commodity Report as of March 28, 2005
2. Various Postings to CBP's Web Site etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted the following documents to its Web site:
- Importer Transitions from Focused Assessment to Self-Assessment -- a press release announcing that CBP has for the first time transitioned an importer from the Focused Assessment (FA) program to the Importer Self Assessment (ISA) Program. The Estee Lauder Company, selected in January 2005, is the first company to make the transition from FA to ISA. (CBP Press Release, dated 03/23/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/press_releases/03232005.xml)
- Memo to CBP Field Operations Directors on NAFTA Rules of Origin Proclamation - memorandum advising of the effect of changes to NAFTA rules of origin contained in Presidential Proclamation 7870. (See ITT's Online Archives or 02/17/05 news, 05021705, for BP summary of Proclamation. CBP memorandum, dated 02/24/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/international_agreements/nafta/president_proc.ctt/memo_nafta.doc)
- DHS to Announce Border Control Initiative Phase II-The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), CBP Commissioner Robert C. Bonner and CBP Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar will announce Phase II of the Arizona Border Control Initiative (ABCI) on March 30, 2005 in Tucson. (Media Advisory, dated 03/28/05, available fromBP by emailing documents@brokerpower.com)