The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is setting fiscal year 2022 country allocations for imports under tariff-rate quotas for cane sugar and refined sugars. The FY22 import TRQ for raw cane sugar was established at 1,117,195 metric tons raw value (MTRV), the minimum amount to which the U.S. is committed under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Uruguay Round Agreements (see [Ref:2109100027]). The USTR now allocates this TRQ among supplying countries and customs areas, as follows: Argentina 45,281; Australia 87,402; Barbados 7,371; Belize 11,584; Bolivia 8,424; Brazil 152,691; Colombia 25,273; Congo (Brazzaville) 7,258; Costa Rica 15,796; Cote d’Ivoire 7,258; Dominican Republic 185,335; Ecuador 11,584; El Salvador 27,379; Fiji 9,477; Gabon 7,258; Guatemala 50,546; Guyana 12,636; Haiti 7,258; Honduras 10,530; India 8,424; Jamaica 11,584; Madagascar 7,258; Malawi 10,530; Mauritius 12,636; Mexico 7,258; Mozambique 13,690; Nicaragua 22,114; Panama 30,538; Papua New Guinea 7,258; Paraguay 7,258; Peru 43,175; Philippines 142,160; South Africa 24,220; St. Kitts & Nevis 7,258; Swaziland 16,849; Taiwan 12,636; Thailand 14,743; Trinidad & Tobago 7,371; Uruguay 7,258; Zimbabwe 12,636.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Sept. 9 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
The following are short summaries of recent CBP “NY” rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Aug. 17 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
TV imports to the U.S. approached 11 million sets in Q2, about 650,000 fewer than in the 2020 quarter, according to Census Bureau data retrieved Saturday through the International Trade Commission’s DataWeb portal. Higher panel costs and other inflationary trends rendered the average Q2 TV import nearly $99 more expensive than its 2020 counterpart. TVs shipped here in January-June averaged customs value roughly 25% higher than in 2020's first six months.
CBP's plans to extend the Part 102 marking rules from NAFTA to USMCA determinations of country of origin for nonpreferential claims and procurement under USMCA (see 2107010045) lacks the legal justifications needed to finalize the proposal, Novolex Holdings, a packaging conglomerate owned by the Carlyle Group, said in comments to the agency. "As proposed, such origin determinations would no longer abide by the precedent developed in over a century of determinations by the federal courts," the company said. The comments were posted Aug. 11 in the docket.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP “NY” rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The following are short summaries of recent CBP “NY” rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
While grain-oriented electrical steel is subject to Section 232 tariffs, the domestic GOES producer says that electrical steel laminations and cores produced in Mexico and Canada continue to imperil the jobs at their mills. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., represent the workers at those mills, and they, along with Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., have proposed an amendment to the bipartisan infrastructure bill that would instruct the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to negotiate with Canada and Mexico in order to get them to agree to measures curtailing their exports if they are so numerous that they damage the business of Cleveland-Cliffs.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP “NY” rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York: