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 October 15, 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, Haitian 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 10/15/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/cr071015.ctt/cr071015.doc.)
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1. Weekly TRQ/TPL Commodity Report as of October 15, 2007
2. Various Postings to CBP's Web Site
The following have recently been posted to CBP's Web site:
NEXUS expands to three new locations. CBP has issued a press release announcing the opening of new NEXUS enrollment centers and dedicated lanes in North Dakota, Maine, and Michigan. The new locations brings the number of enrollment centers on both sides of the border to 16. (CBP press rleease, dated 10/15/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/10152007_6.xml.)
e-Manifest: Truck usage shifts into high gear. CBP has issued a press release announcing that electronic truck manifest (e-Manifest: Trucks) filings increased 84% from February to August 2007 as CBP continues to implement the e-Manifest: Truck filing requirement at additional land border ports. According to the press release, today e-Manifests represent the overwhelming majority of truck manifests - 98% at all ports. (CBP press release, dated 10/15/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/whats_new/e_manifest.xml.)
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.)