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: Cane and Beet Sugar (Quota, Classification & Entry).
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.
CBP has announced that the 2006/2007 tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for the August 1, 2006 through July 31, 2007 period on the following cotton open on August 1, 2006:
In the July 19, 2006 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 40, No. 30), CBP issued a notice proposing to revoke the classification treatment accorded to certain single mode optical fibers. 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 posted updated information to its Web site regarding its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Exchange Conference for importers and brokers on August 15-16, 2006 and for truck carriers on August 16-17, 2006, in Chicago, IL.
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: Raw Cotton: Tariff Classification and Import Quotas.
In the July 19, 2006 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBPBulletin) (Vol. 40, No. 30), CBP issued notices: (a) proposing to revoke a classification ruling on palm fatty acid distillate, and (b) withdrawing the proposed revocation of four rulings regarding the country of origin marking for imported safety eyeglasses combined with prescription lenses.
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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site the following documents related to its July 14, 2006 rule proposing a pre-departure Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) requirement (See ITT's Online Archives or 07/19/06 news, 06071910, for BP summary of CBP's proposed rule):
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: NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) for Textiles and Textile Articles.
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: Beauty and Skin Care Products of Heading 3304.