This summary report highlights the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels1 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” It also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has updated its Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) for entry summary and related information filed through the Automated Commercial System (ACS) in order to add a new Appendix U on PGA Manifest Hold Status Messages, among other changes.
CBP has posted an updated version of its TRQ/TPL "threshold to fill" list, a quick reference to monitor TRQs and TPLs that are approaching their restraint limit or have filled their in-quota (low) rate. The list is divided into two sections: those that are at least 85% filled and those that are filled.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted to its website on December 7, 2011, a notice indicating that it has renamed its Center for Excellence and Expertise (CEE) for Pharmaceuticals as the "Industry Integration Center for Pharmaceuticals," and states that it is a central point of contact for inquiries and resolution of issues regarding pharmaceutical imports.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that users can now begin running the new “Multi-Modal Manifest” reports. CBP had requested that users not run these reports after e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1) was deployed in August 2011. However, the data conversion has now been completed and users can run them.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of December 8, 2011, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. These messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing that in the near future, a number of updates to the CAMIR and ANSI X12 sea and rail Interface Guidelines documents, which are posted on the CBP website, will occur. Importantly, the definition for empty container bill type will be expanded to state that it can only be used for carrier-owned/leased instruments of international traffic (IIT).
In the November 30, 2011 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 45, No. 49), CBP published notices on its revocation of three rulings and treatment regarding the classification of automatic pet feeders and its modification of one ruling and revocation of treatment regarding the classification of distilled rose and orange blossom waters.
The Coalition to Enforce Antidumping & Countervailing Duty Orders has submitted comments to the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection in advance of the December 7, 2011 COAC meeting. These comments, which are posted on U.S. Customs and Border Protection's website and addressed to COAC’s Antidumping/Countervailing Duty Subcommittee, represent the views of member U.S. industries injured by unfairly traded imports.
On December 2, 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted the draft agenda and 20 documents for its Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection (COAC) meeting on December 7, 2011. CBP has now posted another two COAC documents.