CBP Administrative Messages, Electronic Bulletin Board Notices, Etc
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice to its Web site stating that the third 2003/2004 "low duty" tariff rate quota (TRQ) for specialty sugar for the April 19, 2004 through September 30, 2004 period opens for 2,000,000 kilograms on April 19, 2004 at 1:00 p.m. EDST or its equivalent in other time zones. CBP notes that this TRQ is expected to oversubscribe at opening moment.
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1. Third Specialty Sugar TRQ to Open on April 19, 2004
CBP states that a specialty sugar certificate is required to claim the "low duty" rate and notes that certificates are issued for each separate quota period. According to CBP, it would not be advantageous to file entries for specialty sugar utilizing the Automated Clearinghouse (ACH) as the method of payment. (QBT-04-512, dated 04/07/04, available at http://www.cbp.gov/ImageCache/cgov/content/import/textiles/qbt/qbt2004/2004_5f512_2edoc/v1/2004_5f512.doc.)
2. Weekly Quota Commodity Report as of April 5, 2004
CBP has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of April 5, 2004. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics under HTS 9902.51.11 & 9902.51.12, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 04/05/04, available at http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)