U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of August 20, 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 08/20/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
CBP has made available on its Web site an updated blank "Request for Change in Census Parameters." The request form has been updated to correct the spelling of "census" in the email address for Census to which the request should be sent (it is now FTD_Parameters@census.gov).
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews:
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Web site postings, effective August 7, 2007, the International Trade Administration discontinued the suspension of liquidation for countervailing duty purposes for coated free sheet paper from China or Indonesia.
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 an administrative message stating that due to systems maintenance, the generation of preliminary Periodic Monthly Statements (PMS) have been delayed and will be available on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 by 6:00 p.m., if not earlier. (Adm: 07-0173, dated 08/15/07, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2007/2007-0173.ADM )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of August 13, 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 08/13/07, 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.
A federal appeals court overturned a district court’s dismissal of a an appeal by competitive payphone providers of New York City payphone franchise regulations, saying the trial court hadn’t adequately justified the dismissal. The complex and long-running litigation began in 1996 when the city passed an ordinance requiring municipal franchises for payphone providers. Plaintiffs Best Payphone and New Phone said the city repeatedly denied them a franchise, forcing them to file multiple federal court appeals to preserve their rights under city law to challenge each of the denials. In 2004, the city added new requirements for payphone franchises including a franchise fee increase and a ban on advertisements on payphone enclosures in lower Manhattan. The plaintiffs filed new appeals and sought to amend their other pending complaints, resulting in seven different appeals pending at the U.S. District Court, New York City, at the end of 2004. The district court in early August 2005 enjoined the companies from filing further appeals without the court’s permission and dismissed one complaint challenging the newest city franchise rules as duplicating claims in the other six. Three weeks later, at the end of August, the plaintiffs sought to file an eighth appeal against the city but the district court refused to accept it. The plaintiff payphone companies asked the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals, New York, to reverse the dismissal and lift the trial court’s injunction against more appeals. The 2nd Circuit (Case 05-4935-CV-L) reversed the complaint dismissal on ground the trial court didn’t adequately analyze how challenges to the newest city payphone franchise regulations duplicated claims that predated adoption of the new rules. The 2nd Circuit disclaimed jurisdiction to hear appeals of the injunction on a legal technicality, but remanded the denial of the eighth appeal with instructions to consider whether it raised new issues not addressed in the other appeals.
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews: