In the March 3 and 10, 2004 issues of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 38, No. 10 and 11), CBP issued notices: (a) revoking a classification ruling on men's swimwear, (b) revoking two classification rulings on disposable boxer shorts, and (c) revoking two classification rulings on children's animal blankets. CBP states that it is also revoking any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions that are contrary to its position in these notices.

CNN.com reports that the Bush Administration will soon impose economic sanctions against Syria under the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act, adding that diplomatic penalties are unlikely to be imposed. (See ITT's Online Archives or 12/19/03 news, 03121920, for BP summary of the Syria Act.) (CNN.com Pub 03/10/04, available at http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/03/10/us.syria/index.html)

Pursuant to the initiation notice of an AD duty new shipper review, a bond or other security may continue to be posted in lieu of an AD cash deposit, until the final results are in effect.

According to the ITA, the petitioner, International Imaging Materials, Inc. (IIMAK), alleged that respondents in the three concurrent investigations of TTR (France, Japan, and South Korea) would attempt to circumvent the order by slitting jumbo rolls in third countries. Therefore, the ITA states that IIMAK requested that slitting does not change the country of origin of TTR for AD duty purposes.

(a) These companies as both exporter and producer have de minimis CV rates (Boccam: 0.41% and Sechoirs: 0.60%) and are excluded from the CV duty order.

CIT rules in favor of Customs' liquidation of certain roller chain. In Peer Chain Co. v. U.S., the Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled that Customs correctly assessed $167,111 in antidumping (AD) duties and interest on Peer Chain, an importer of roller chain from Japan, despite the fact that the interest portion of the assessment was caused by the Commerce Department being five years late in notifying Customs (and providing public notice) that a court-ordered suspension of liquidation of the entries had been lifted.

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has posted to its Web site its final annual performance plan for fiscal year (FY) 2005, which contains details on the FMC's mission, strategic goals, and a number of related performance goals.

The International Trade Commission (ITC) has recently added certain documents of the World Customs Organization (WCO) to its Web site.

On March 4, 2004, the Senate passed its version of H.R. 1047, the "Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2003."

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of March 8, 2004. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics under HTS 9902.51.11 & 9902.51.12, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 03/08/04, available at http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)