CBP Administrative Messages, Web Postings, Etc
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of May 16, 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 05/16/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
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1. Weekly Quota Commodity Report as of May 16, 2005
2. Short Supply ("Commercially Unavailable") Designation Under AGOA, ATPDEA, and CBTPA
CBP has issued a notice on CITA's designation of certain ring spun single yarns, of certain specifications, used in fabric wholly formed in the U.S. for use in women's and girls' knit apparel articles, as in short supply ("commercially unavailable") under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA), and the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA). (See ITT's Online Archives or 05/13/05 news, 05051315, for BP summary of CITA's designation.) (TBT-05-012, dated 05/13/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/tbts/TBT2005/tbt_05_012.ctt/tbt_05_012.doc.)
3. Fact Sheet Outlines the Features of Air AMS
CBP has posted to its Web site a "fact sheet" on the features of the air Automated Manifest System (AMS). This fact sheet discusses the following topics: electronic air waybill transmission; open to deconsolidators, CBP ABI entry filer freight forwarders, and service centers; cargo status notifications; in-bond; freight status information (FSI) messages; and air AMS communications. (Air AMS features fact sheet, dated 05/11/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/PrintMe.xml?xml=$/content/import/operations_support/ams/air_features.ctt&location=/import/operations_support/automated_systems/ams/air_features.xml).
4. Miscellaneous CBP Messages on AD and CV Duty Actions
CBP has issued messages on a number of antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty actions, many of which (marked by an * in the action column) were previously published in the Federal Register by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and summarized in International Trade Today.
(The CBP messages marked with an * cover much of the same information as the ITA notices; however, CBP's messages often list the 10-character case number specific to each listed company(s). ITA notices only list the 7-character master case number. In addition, sometimes the master case number for CBP purposes (in parentheses, below, where applicable) differs from the ITA master case number.)
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