U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice announcing that the Customs Electronic Bulletin Board (CEBB) has been retired and all valid materials have been migrated to updated systems, including cbp.gov. CBP's notice notes certain new locations for various information, as the CEBB page itself will be retired on September 30, 2006. (CBP notice, undated, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/communications_to_trade/cebb_linklist.xml)
Latest Harmonized System updates
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has posted to its Web site an updated version of the 2006 Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. (HTS) dated July 1, 2006 (Supplement 1).
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a final report to the President in connection with its investigation of proposed modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). This report is entitled, Proposed Modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S.
During the May 16, 2006 meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (COAC), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Treasury officials discussed a variety of trade issues with COAC, highlights of which are provided below:
CBP has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that its most recent changes to the 2006 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records, Harmonized System (HS) Update (No. 0603) contains changes with respect to:
CBP has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that its most recent changes to the 20006 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records, Harmonized System (HS) Update (No. 0602) contains changes with respect to:
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has issued a press release announcing that Vietnam's WTO membership talks are now well into the final stages as the country has completed, or has almost completed, a variety of prerequisites to membership. (WTO Pub 03/27/06, available at http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news06_e/acc_vietnam_27march06_e.htm)
CBP has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that its most recent Harmonized System (HS) update (No. 0601) contains:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has scheduled the next Customs Broker License Examination for Monday, April 3, 2006.
The Census Bureau has posted to its Web site a list of 183 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) numbers that are invalid for use in the Automated Export System (AES) as of January 1, 2006.