U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted four recently reviewed Informed Compliance Publications (ICPs), with April 2006 updates, to its Web site.
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 posted the descriptive list of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) textile folklore items that it provides to field import Specialists as part of NAFTA preferential rules of origin training.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice to its web site inviting importers, brokers and truck carriers to the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Exchange Conference on August 15-17, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois.
In the April 12, 2006 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 40, No. 16), CBP issued a notice revoking a classification ruling on anodes and cathodes used in electrolysis. CBP states that it is also revoking any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted four recently reviewed Informed Compliance Publications (ICPs), with April 2006 updates, to its Web site.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted guidance on the Israel and Jordan free trade agreements (FTAs) and the U.S.-Israel FTA Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) programs with Jordan and Egypt that it provides to field Import Specialists.
The Washington Post reports that President Bush's move to nominate current U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Rob Portman as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has been widely viewed as indicating that the Bush Administration holds little hope for secure a far-reaching deal in the Doha round of trade talks in 2006 and possibly for much longer than that. (WP dated 04/19/06, available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/AR2006041801488.html.)
In the April 12, 2006 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBPBulletin) (Vol. 40, No. 16), CBP issued notices: (a) proposing to revoke a classification ruling on a certain base metal medallion, and (b) revoking two classification rulings on a radiotelephony base station cabinet and a noise-limiting hood.
(This BP summary is being reissued in order to correct the second listing of countries. The online version of the original BP summary 06041910 is similarly corrected.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted four recently reviewed Informed Compliance Publications (ICPs), with March 2006 updates, to its Web site.