CBP Administrative Messages, Web Postings, Etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a courtesy notice to its Web site announcing that the global refined sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ) that reopened on August 7, 2006 filled on September 8, 2006 at 4:01 p.m.
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1. Global Refined Sugar TRQ Filled on September 8, 2006
According to CBP, quota is still available for refined sugar with country of origin Mexico or Canada (original certificate of quota eligibility (CQE) required) and specialty sugar (specialty certificate required).
(See ITT's Online Archives or 08/10/06 news, 06081005, for BP summary on the August 2006 increases to the FY 2006 refined and specialty sugar TRQs.)
(CBP notice, QBT-06-552, dated 09/14/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2006/06_552.ctt/06_552.doc.)
2. September 21 Opening of 180-Day Special Import Quota for Upland Cotton (Announcement Number 24)
CBP has posted to its Web site a notice announcing a "weekly" special import quota of 23,276,125 kg for upland cotton purchased not later than December 19, 2006 and entered under HTS 9903.52.24. The quota period is September 21, 2006 through March 19, 2007; the opening date is September 21, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. EDT, or its equivalent in other time zones.
According to CBP, the use of the "special import quota" is at the importer's option and is not subject to the tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) in HTS Chapter 52 Additional U.S. Notes (AUSNs) 5 through 10. CBP has previously stated that these 180-day quotas are established pursuant to a 1991 Presidential Proclamation, are "triggered" by high C.I.F Northern European cotton prices, and are provided for in HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter III, U.S. Note 6. (See notice for special instructions concerning the requirement for an original foreign government certificate and a certification by the importer.) (QBT-06-554, dated 09/14/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2006/06_554.ctt/06_554.doc.)
3. Miscellaneous CBP Messages on AD and CV Duty Actions
CBP has issued administrative 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 administrative 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.)
Important! CBP will discontinue issuing administrative messages on AD and CV duty actions effective on approximately September 30, 2006. CBP's AD/CV searchable database on its Web site, http://addcvd.cbp.gov/ , will then be the sole CBP forum for these notices.
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The administrative messages listed above are availablefrom http://www.brokerpower.net/admin_messages/ (and can be searched by message number, country, product, etc.).