CBP posted updated versions of certain of its Excel workbooks containing historical information and fill rates for TRQs and TPLs. The updated versions are (here).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a record of changes since May 7 to the ACE ABI CATAIR (Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements). The change log is (here). The full CATAIR is (here).
This summary report highlights the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s May 29 “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” It also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly May 29, 2012 “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.”1
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reminded ACE users of a coming outage in a CSMS message. CBP said due to a major hardware upgrade, the ACE certification environment will be unavailable beginning June 1, 2012 at 15:00 EDT through June 3, 2012 at 23:59 EDT. This upgrade won't impact ACE Production, said CBP.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued its May 30 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 23), which contains 2 notices of ruling actions. The ruling actions are as follows:
In the May 16, 2012 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No.21), CBP published a notice of its modification of rulings and revocation of treatment regarding the tariff classification of certain lighting fixtures.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a CSMS message announcing the issuance of Harmonized System Update 1206 on changes to the 2012 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). This update contains 13,572 ABI records and 2,681 harmonized tariff records.