U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an interim rule, effective March 7, 2005, which amends 19 CFR Parts 10, 24, 162, 163, 178, and 191 for the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement (US-CFTA).
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 2, 2005 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 39, No. 10), CBP issued a notice proposing to revoke a classification ruling on Protamine Sulfate. CBP states that it is also proposing to revoke any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions that are contrary to its position in this notice.
The Washington Post reports that the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva ruled on Thursday that U.S. cotton subsidies violate global trade rules because they exceed limits agreed to in 1944, adding that the Bush administration is proposing to cut these subsidies by billions of dollars. (WP, 03/08/05, www.washingtonpost.com )
The U.S. Census Bureau (Census) has issued a proposed rule to amend the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations (FTSR, 15 CFR Part 30)1 in order to require mandatory filing of export information through the Automated Export System (AES) or AESDirect for all shipments where a Shipper's Export Declaration (SED) is currently required, etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an interim rule, effective March 7, 2005, which amends 19 CFR Parts 10, 24, 162, 163, 178, and 191 for the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement (US-CFTA).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) makes available on its Web site a list of brokers for each individual U.S. port of entry.
According to Shippers' NewsWire, Senator Hutchinson introduced a bill (S. 376) on February 15, 2005, which calls for at least 50% of containers, beginning in 2007, to be equipped with tracking and monitoring technology that can notify authorities that the container has been breeched by terrorists or criminals. The article notes that Hutchinson's bill also calls for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to report on how requiring advance submission of purchase orders, shipper's letter of instruction, commercial invoices, letters of credit, certificates of origin, and other transaction information can enhance U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) container inspection targeting system. After being introduced, S. 376 was referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (SNW dated 03/03/05, www.americanshipper.com.)
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a notice announcing the availability of a March 2005 version of its Compliance Policy Guide (Guide or CPG) on the FDA and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) strategy for enforcing the requirements of the interim final rule for submitting prior notice (PN) for imported food.
The U.S. Census Bureau (Census) has issued a proposed rule to amend the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations (FTSR, 15 CFR Part 30)1 in order to require mandatory filing of export information through the Automated Export System (AES) or AESDirect for all shipments where a Shipper's Export Declaration (SED) is currently required, etc.
The U.S. Census Bureau (Census) has issued a proposed rule to amend the Foreign Trade Statistics Regulations (FTSR, 15 CFR Part 30)1 in order to require mandatory filing of export information through the Automated Export System (AES) or AESDirect for all shipments where a Shipper's Export Declaration (SED) is currently required, etc.