The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a final rule, effective October 1, 2006, which revises certain fee amounts in 49 CFR Part 594 relating to the registered importer (RI) program and the importation of motor vehicles not certified as conforming to the Federal motor vehicle safety standards (FMVSS).
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 memorandum titled: "US-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement Implementation Instructions," that provides instructions for the filing and acceptance of claims for preferential treatment of goods under the U.S.- Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (BFTA).
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 notice on the duty-free Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (BFTA) tariff preference level (TPL) for certain non-originating textiles and apparel, as provided for in HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter XIV, U.S. Note 13. CBP has also issued a second notice for certain apparel ensembles under this TPL.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently updated its presentation on understanding tariff shift rules under U.S. free trade agreements (FTAs), which is part of CBP in-house training material for field Import Specialists.
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 posted a notice to its Web site stating that effective for goods entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after April 1, 2006, new Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) 9915.61.05 is required for certain Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) originating trousers, breeches, or short from Nicaragua.
On July 13, 2006, the Senate passed its own version of H.R. 5441, the fiscal year (FY) 2007 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a textile bulletin which contains instructions on the retroactive application of the preferential tariff provisions of the U.S. - Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) to qualifying textile or apparel goods of Guatemala that were entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after January 1, 2004 and before July 1, 2006, the DR-CAFTA's effective date for Guatemala.
In the July 26, 2006 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 40, No. 31), CBP issued notices: (1) proposing to revoke a classification ruling on a novelty top hat, and (2) modifying three classification rulings on certain skin care products. CBP states that it is also proposing to revoke, or is revoking, any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions.