U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of April 14, 2008. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 04/14/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/.)
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 has issued a notice that Canada, Mexico and the U.S. have amended the rules of procedure for binational panel reviews under Article 1904 of the North American Free Trade Agreement in order to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the review process.
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 its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of April 10, 2008. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 04/10/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a Rail Manifest CSMS message announcing that early in the morning of April 10, 2008, it began to experience a back-up in the MQ channel that handles rail messages.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted its April 2008 Customs Broker Examination to its Web site. CBP has not yet posted the answer key for this exam. (Exam, posted 04/07/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_programs/broker/broker_exam/exam_and_key_downloads/apr2008_exam.ctt/apr2008_exam.doc.)
According to various documents posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site, the Department of Homeland Security recently announced its intent to issue two waivers of certain laws to expedite security improvements at the southwest border. Congress gave the DHS Secretary authority to waive all legal requirements necessary to expeditiously install additional physical barriers and roads at the border to deter illegal activity.
The European Community maintains a Customs and Security Web site which provides updated information on EC customs and security measures, initiatives, legislation, tariffs and duties, etc.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice announcing the opportunity for interested parties to request administrative reviews by April 30, 2008 for the following antidumping and/or countervailing duty orders: