CBP Administrative Messages, Web Postings, Etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued another version of its March 3, 2006 implementation instructions for the CAFTA-DR in order to indicate that it is now in effect for Honduras and Nicaragua (April 1, 2006), as well as El Salvador (March 1, 2006); indicate that there are tariff preference levels (TPLs) in addition to tariff rate quotas (TRQs); indicate that retroactive benefits are available for textile and apparel goods of the above three countries; indicate that Nicaragua has a TPL for cotton and manmade fiber (MMF) apparel (and that there is no retroactive treatment for this TPL); correctly indicate that textile products entered under HTS 9915.61.01 (Nicaragua) and 9915.62.01 - 9915.62.20 (Costa Rica) do not require an SPI, etc.
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1. Revised Version of CAFTA-DR Implementation Instructions
(Through an oversight, however, the "Action" section of this version is not corrected to reflect that certain entries do not require an SPI, nor that ABI programming has been completed for CAFTA-DR. In addition, the "Information Necessary to Make a Claim" section does not mention that certain entries don't need an SPI.)
April 26, 2006 CAFTA-DR implementation instructions (posted 05/02/06) available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/international_agreements/free_trade/dominican_republic/us_dominican.ctt/us_dominican.doc .
2. 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.).