U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing that the first tranche for the fiscal year 2012 specialty sugar tariff rate quota (TRQ) that opened on October 12, 2011 oversubscribed at opening moment. The pro rata percentage is 29.46292% or 0.29462928.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that the 2012 annual user fee of $138 for each customs broker permit and national permit held by an individual, partnership, association, or corporation is due by January 20, 2012.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the weekly foreign currency exchange rate multipliers for the week ending October 21, 2011.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has newly posted the recordings and presentation slides for two webinars, one on ACE Courtesy Notice of Liquidation (October 12, 2011) and the other on Practical Suggestions to Mitigate Cargo Security Risks (October 6, 2011). These webinars are part of a series of live trade outreach webinars that CBP is hosting. Each webinar is recorded and made available for subsequent on-demand viewing. Topics of previous webinars available for viewing include the role of the broker, account management restructuring, ACE Post Summary Corrections, simplified entry and financial processes, etc. Another announcement regarding the ACE Courtesy Notice Report was announced in CSMS #11-000265, available here.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site as of October 20, 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 and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have issued the following news releases:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is requesting that those few CAMIR users transmitting the K01 (edit) record, discontinue its use immediately. The A01 (amendment) feature can accomplish the same action of either a delete, add or replace of quantity against a bill of lading. In the near future a reject will generate when an attempt is made to send this record type. CSMS #11-000261
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials stated at the September 2011 annual NCBFAA conference that the agency is currently using the Document Imaging System internally for emailed single transaction bonds. However, they are working with select individuals to develop a plan to expand its use, and hope to issue a Federal Register notice announcing a pilot in a few months on regularly accepting STBs via DIS.
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.” Note that the fiscal year 2012 commodity TRQs reopened for a new quota period on October 1, 2011, as did the TPLs for the CBTPA.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a final rule adopting, without change, interim amendments to CBP regulations that were published in January 2011 on the preferential tariff treatment and other customs-related provisions of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (OFTA). The final rule is effective November 21, 2011.