U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing unscheduled downtime for the Automated Commercial System (ACS) on Saturday, September 8, 2007 beginning at 4:00 a.m. EDT and lasting approximately 90 minutes. CBP stated that all ACS transactions would be unavailable during this time. (Adm: 07-0190, dated 09/07/07, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/admmsgs/2007/07-0190.html)
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of September 4, 2007. 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 09/04/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
C-351-833Canada A-122-840 Indonesia A-560-815 Mexico A-201-830 Moldova A-841-805 Trinidad & Tobago A-274-804 Ukraine A-823-812
The International Trade Administration and the International Trade Commission have each issued notices initiating automatic five-year Sunset Reviews on the above-listed antidumping and countervailing duty orders.
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice announcing the opportunity to request administrative reviews by September 30, 2007 for individual producers or exporters subject to the following antidumping and/or countervailing duty orders:
The antidumping and countervailing messages U.S. Customs Border and Protection issues on behalf of the International Trade Administration are now only available on CBP's Web site at http://addcvd.cbp.gov. AD and CV ABI administrative messages are no longer issued.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
Marine Link reports that despite the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) being roughly six months behind schedule and delaying the first TWIC card processing site until fall 2007, the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard still plan to require all mariners to have TWIC cards by September 2008. (Marine Link, dated 08/24/07, available at http://www.marinelink.com/Story/OMSAOfficialsTestifyAtTWICHearing-208605.html)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of August 27, 2007. 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, Haiti 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 08/27/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.