CBP Administrative Messages, Web Postings, Etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of August 13, 2007. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haiti HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 08/13/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
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1. Weekly TRQ/TPL Commodity Report as of August 13, 2007
2. Various Postings to CBP's Web Site
The following have recently been posted to CBP's Web site:
Land WHTI working paper. CBP has posted a working paper on using probabilistic terrorism risk modeling for regulatory benefit-cost analysis and its application to the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative implemented in the land environment. (Working paper, dated May 2007, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/travel/vacation/ready_set_go/land_travel/econ_analysis.ctt/econ_analysis.pdf.)
Unmanned aircraft systems presentation. CBP has posted a presentation by the Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Air & Marine on unmanned aircraft systems in homeland security. (Presentation, dated August 2007, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/border_security/air_marine/uas_program/uas_dhs_kostelnik.ctt/uas_dhs_kostelnik.ppt.)
3. Miscellaneous CBP Messages on AD and CV Duty Actions
The antidumping and countervailing messages U.S. Customs Border and Protection issues on behalf of the International Trade Administration are now only available on CBP's Web site at http://addcvd.cbp.gov. AD and CV ABI administrative messages are no longer issued.
An overview of a number of recent AD/CV messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, are provided below. (Note that the complete message is only available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)
1 As the new shipper review is rescinded, the ten digit case number assigned to the company that was the subject of the review is no longer active. All entries of subject merchandise will enter under the China-wide entity (e.g. A-570-863-000 and A-570-863-008).