On May 22, 2008, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on S. 1919, the Trade Enforcement Act of 2007. Highlights of the witnesses' written statements are provided below, after a summary of the bill.

According to sources at the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements, the agreed quotas imposed on certain China-origin textile and apparel pursuant to the 2006 U.S.-China textile agreement will end on December 31, 2008.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice announcing that the fourth tranche for the fiscal year 2008 specialty sugar tariff rate quota that opened on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 oversubscribed at opening moment. The pro rata percentage is 60.31951% or 0.6031951.

The International Trade Administration has published its quarterly list of recently completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and anticircumvention determinations; terminated scope and anticircumvention inquiries; and pending scope inquiries and anticircumvention rulings.

The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.

The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued ACE Portal Accounts and Truck Manifest CSMS messages announcing that as of 8:33 a.m. on May 18, 2008 ACE Portal users were unable to login in. CBP sources state that this problem was fixed on the afternoon of May 18, 2008. (CSMS s 08-000085 & 08-000086, dated 05/18/08, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/csms.asp)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI CSMS message stating that the current address listed on "HTS Tape Order Form" in Appendix J of the CATAIR is no longer valid. CBP is in the process of updating this form in the CATAIR, however, effective immediately, use the address below:

The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders, investigations, etc. which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued, neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period, etc.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a Truck Manifest CSMS message announcing that it has fixed the problem with the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) is experiencing some synchronization issues with the Free and Secure Trade (FAST) database that was causing Commercial Drivers Licenses (CDL) to appear to be expired. According to CBP, Truck manifest filers should not be receiving rejected manifests based on expired CDLs.