CBP Administrative Messages, Web Postings, Etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued additional notices stating that effective April 27, 2006, ACS programming now allows the ABI filing of preference claims under the U.S. - Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). As a result, non-ABI entries are no longer required and any quota entries (textiles or agricultural tariff-rate quotas) that had been held by the ports due to the unavailability of ABI can now be processed through the quota module. (See ITT's Online Archives or 04/27/06 news, 06042705 for earlier BP summary) (QBT-06-014 (textiles), QBT-06-527 (agricultural TRQs), dated 04/27/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2006/06_014.ctt/06_014.doc and http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2006/06_527.ctt/06_527.doc respectively.)
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1. Reminder that ABI Transmission is Now Available for CAFTA-DR Claims
2. Reminder that German Temporary Passports are No Longer Valid
CBP has issued a reminder that beginning May 1, 2006, German temporary passports (or emergency passports) are no longer valid for travel to the U.S. under the Visa Waiver Program. Regular, official, and diplomatic German passports (with a digital photo if issued after October 26, 2005) remain valid for Visa Waiver Program travel, per the current VWP passport requirements. (See ITT's Online Archives or 03/29/06 news, 06032930 for earlier BP summary. (CBP notice, dated 04/27/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/alerts/travel_alerts/german_passport_advisory.xml )
3. Miscellaneous CBP Messages on AD and CV Duty Actions
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.
(The CBP messages marked with an * cover much of the same information as the ITA notices; however, CBP's messages often list the 10-character case number specific to each listed company(s). ITA notices only list the 7-character master case number. In addition, sometimes the master case number for CBP purposes (in parentheses, below, where applicable) differs from the ITA master case number.)
The administrative messages listed above are availablefrom http://www.brokerpower.net/admin_messages/ (and can be searched by message number, country, product, etc.).