U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a proposed rule that would amend 19 CFR Part 181 to clarify that to claim the Merchandise Processing Fee (MPF) exemption for unconditionally free goods from a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) country1, an importer of an originating good must place the appropriate special program indicator (SPI "CA" or "MX" as appropriate) opposite the good on the entry form, even though the importer does not need to claim a NAFTA duty preference.
CBP CROSS Rulings
CBP issues binding advance rulings in connection with the importation of merchandise into the United States. They issue the rulings to give the trade community transparency of how CBP will treat a prospective import or carrier transaction. Common rulings include the tariff classification, country of origin, or free trade agreement applicability of merchandise, among other things. These rulings are available in CBP's Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) database.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a revised version of its informed compliance publication (ICP) entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Textile Costumes Under the HTSUS.
In the August 9, 2006 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBPBulletin) (Vol. 40, No. 33), CBP issued a notice proposing to modify a classification ruling and proposing to revoke a classification ruling on alloy steel powder. CBP states that it is also proposing to revoke any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a new informed compliance publication (ICP) entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Classification of Cooking Ranges, Stoves and Ovens.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice announcing that it is extending the deadline for submitting comments to October 12, 2006 (from August 14, 2006), regarding CBP's proposal to amend 19 CFR Parts 4 and 122 concerning the electronic transmission requirements of passenger manifests for commercial aircraft arriving in and departing from the U.S., as well as passenger and crew manifests for commercial vessels departing from the U.S.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site details of its enforcement of the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA's) requirements under SAFETEA-LU1 that commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers licensed in Canada or Mexico have a FAST card to transport placarded amounts of hazardous materials or any quantity of material listed as a select agent or toxin in 42 CFR Part 73 (subject hazmats) within the U.S.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ)/tariff preference level (TPL) commodity report as of August 14, 2006. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain CAFTA-DR, JFTA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CAFTA-DR, CBTPA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (Chile FTA) TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 08/14/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a proposed rule that would amend 19 CFR Part 24 to increase the user fee for customs services provided to express consignment carrier facilities or centralized hub facilities in connection with the entry or release of shipments to $1.00 (from $0.66) for each individual air waybill or bill of lading.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a new informed compliance publication (ICP) entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Coffee
In the August 2, 2006 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 40, No. 32), CBP issued a notice proposing to revoke or modify eight classification rulings on Styrofoam articles covered with paper or natural materials. CBP states that it is proposing to revoke any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical merchandise.