U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) Office of Information and Technology has posted a notice to its Web site containing (a) a list, updated as of November 29, 2005, of companies/persons offering Sea Automated Manifest System (AMS) data processing services to the trade community, and (b) the Sea AMS Respondent Checklist, as follows:
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.
The Wall Street Journal reports that legislation for the U.S.-Bahrain free trade agreement (FTA) could be passed by the House of Representatives as soon as the week of December 12, 2005. (See ITT's Online Archives or 11/22/05 news, 05112299 2, for BP summary on the President's transmittal to Congress of U.S.-Bahrain FTA legislation.) (WSJ dated 12/02/05, www.wsj.com.)
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a final rule which finalizes without change a March 2005 interim final rule that extended and expanded the Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) system until March 21, 2009.
In October 2004, the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) issued an interim final rule to require the mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) at retail for farm-raised and wild fish and shellfish, effective April 4, 2005.
In the November 23, 2005 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 39, No. 48), CBP issued notices: (a) proposing to revoke a classification ruling on a certain silk capelet, and (b) modifying or revoking six classification rulings on certain sports equipment. CBP states that it is also proposing to revoke or is revoking any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions that are contrary to its position in these notices.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a new informed compliance publication (ICP) entitled, "Machine Tools." The following are "excerpts" of this new ICP:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued notices announcing the availability of a revised compliance policy guide on prior notice (PN) of imported food as well as the second edition of a questions-and-answers (Q&A) document regarding the final rule on establishment and maintenance of records under the Bioterrorism Act.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued notices announcing the availability of a revised compliance policy guide on prior notice (PN) of imported food as well as the second edition of a questions-and-answers (Q&A) document regarding the final rule on establishment and maintenance of records under the Bioterrorism Act.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) Office of Information and Technology has posted a notice to its Web site containing (a) a list, updated as of November 22, 2005, of companies/persons offering Sea Automated Manifest System (AMS) data processing services to the trade community, and (b) the Sea AMS Respondent Checklist, as follows:
In the November 16, 2005 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBPBulletin) (Vol. 39, No. 47), CBP issued notices: (a) proposing to modify two classification rulings and proposing to revoke three classification rulings on plastic rubbing templates, and (b) withdrawing a modification and revocation of two classification rulings on silymarin (milk thistle) and leucoanthocyanin.