U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message stating that the system problem relating to Canada NAFTA claims for softwood lumber product tariff numbers that require the reporting of the province codes "XD" (British Colombia - Coastal) or "XE" (British Colombia - Interior) has been corrected. As a result, the trade can now file these claims. (See ITT's Online Archives or 10/25/06 news, 06102510, and 10/23/06 news, 06102310 for previous BP summaries.) (Adm: 06-1167, dated 10/25/06, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2006/2006-1167.ADM )
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) has issued a notice which sources state clarifies that evidence of offshore purchase is not required to accompany the DSP-5 license application to export a U.S. build-to-print drawing to be used in the foreign manufacture of defense articles.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a fact sheet on Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) features that will be coming over the next few years.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice, effective September 28, 2006, to notify the public that, consistent with April and July 2006 Court of International Trade (CIT) decisions, it will be withholding certain distributions under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (CDSOA, also known as the Byrd Amendment) that derive from antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duties assessed on goods from Canada or Mexico.
Spamhaus will fight a U.S. federal court order barring it from blocking e-mails by an Internet marketer it deems a spammer, it said Tues. The case -- e360 Insight LLC v. Spamhaus -- took an interesting turn late last week when the plaintiff asked U.S. Dist. Court, Chicago, to cite spam-cop Spamhaus for contempt and order ICANN to suspend its domain name. It also raises questions about risks to legitimate e- mailers from overly zealous spam-busting, one lawyer said.
The following are documents which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.). Updates are listed under "What's New" on its Web site:
The International Trade Administration (ITA) and the International Trade Commission (ITC) have issued various notices, each initiating automatic five-year Sunset Reviews on the above-listed antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders.
American Shipper's Shippers' NewsWire reports that a trade association has condemned a deal worked out last week between the Bush administration and two senators who have held up legislation to grant Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status to Vietnam. In exchange for the senators' removal of their hold, the Bush administration will work to ensure that the U.S. textile industry is not harmed when Vietnam joins the WTO, by for example, considering self-initiating an antidumping (AD) case for garments. (The U.S. must remove its quotas on Vietnamese textiles and apparel when Vietnam joins the WTO if PNTR has been granted to Vietnam, among other things). (AS, dated 10/02/06, www.americanshipper.com )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a memo which provides an overview of the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 20061 (Act) that was signed into law on August 17, 2006 as Public Law (P.L.) 109-280.
CBP has recently posted the following to its Web site: