U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) states that it has removed from its Web site the Informed Compliance Publications (ICPs) on (1) classification of marble, and (2) enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR).
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.
In the March 8, 2006 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 40, No. 11), CBP issued a notice proposing to revoke three classification rulings on machines for producing metal-coated glass discs containing digitally-encoded data. 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 its new Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) minimum-security criteria for highway carriers, which are effective as of March 13, 2006.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted three recently reviewed Informed Compliance Publications (ICPs), with March 2006 updates, to its Web site:
CBP Issues Instructions on Filing & Acceptance
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a memorandum providing instructions for the filing and acceptance of claims for preferential tariff treatment of goods made under the U.S. - Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA).
In U.S. v. Ford Motor Company (Ford), the Court of International Trade (CIT) granted Ford's motion to dismiss certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) claims for a repayment of duties in the amount of $5,275,329 under 19 USC 1592(d), as the statute of limitations had expired.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a memorandum providing instructions for the filing and acceptance of claims for preferential tariff treatment of goods made under the U.S. - Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a memorandum providing instructions for the filing and acceptance of claims for preferential tariff treatment of goods made under the U.S. - Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a memorandum which contains instructions on the retroactive application of the preferential tariff provisions1 of the U.S. - Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) to qualifying textile or apparel goods of eligible DR-CAFTA countries that were entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after January 1, 2004 and before March 1, 2006, the DR-CAFTA's effective date for El Salvador, which is currently the only country to which such benefits apply.