China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has issued a press release announcing that it will cancel the export duties (also referred to as export tariffs or taxes) that have been imposed on certain outbound textiles and clothing, effective January 1, 2006.
Harmonized Tariff Schedule
The Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) is a reference manual that provides duty rates for almost every item that exists. It is a system of classifying and taxing all goods imported into the United States. The HTS is based on the international Harmonized System, which is a global standard for naming and describing trade products, and consists of a hierarchical structure that assigns a specific code and rate to each type of merchandise for duty, quota, and statistical purposes. The HTS was made effective on January 1, 1989, replacing the former Tariff Schedules of the United States. It is maintained by the U.S. International Trade Commission, but the Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security is responsible for interpreting and enforcing the HTS.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced a preliminary "low duty" tariff rate quota (TRQ) limit of 20,251,211kg. for tuna and skipjack, in airtight containers, not in oil, in containers weighing with their contents not over 7 kg. each, for the January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006 period.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site notice that the Office of Regulations and Rulings (OR&R), National Commodity Specialist Division (NCSD) in New York has announced an enhancement to the existing eRulings program with the creation of a Web based eRuling Template for online binding ruling requests.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice on its Web site , entitled Notice of Examination for April 2006, which announces that the next Customs Broker License Examination will be held on Monday, April 3, 2006.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued notices announcing the availability of a revised compliance policy guide on prior notice (PN) of imported food as well as the second edition of a questions-and-answers (Q&A) document regarding the final rule on establishment and maintenance of records under the Bioterrorism Act.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a new informed compliance publication (ICP) entitled, "Machine Tools." The following are "excerpts" of this new ICP:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued notices announcing the availability of a revised compliance policy guide on prior notice (PN) of imported food as well as the second edition of a questions-and-answers (Q&A) document regarding the final rule on establishment and maintenance of records under the Bioterrorism Act.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice which, among other things, provides instructions on the release of certain embargoed China safeguard textile products during the period of November 28 through December 2, 2005.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently issued an interim rule which, effective October 5, 2005, eliminated the textile declaration requirement and newly required the Manufacturer Identification Code (MID) for textile and apparel products from all countries to be constructed from the name and address of the entity performing the origin-conferring operations, etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message which announces that the most recent update of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. Annotated (HTSA) includes new statistical breakouts for ski pants (which are assigned to textile categories 647 or 648, as appropriate), creates a new statistical note in Chapter 62 to define the term ski/snowboard pants, and deletes Chapter 61 statistical note 4 and Chapter 62 statistical Note 2.