Treasury Issues its CBP Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda
The Treasury Department has published its semi-annual regulatory agenda, which contains certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection regulatory rulemakings.
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(The Department of Homeland Security has also issued its CBP semi-annual regulatory agenda, which contains other CBP regulatory rulemakings. See ITT's Online Archives or 12/12/07 news, 07121220, for BP summary of DHS' agenda.)
This agenda is a comprehensive list of the Treasury's CBP rulemakings at the proposed, final, and completed stages, as well as rulemakings that are long term actions. The agenda lists the regulation title, past regulation(s), if any, the timeframe for the next regulatory action(s), if any, a brief description of the regulation, and a contact party name and telephone number.
Highlights of Treasury's CBP rulemakings (i.e. those regulations that pertain to 19 CFR) at the proposed, final, or completed stages, or that are long term actions are as follows:
Proposed Rule Stage
| Regulation Title | Target/Actual Date for Proposed Rule |
| - Expanded Methods of Payment of Duties, Taxes, Interest, and Fees1 | 02/08 |
| - Uniform Rules of Origin | 12/07 |
| - Revision of Outbound Redelivery Procedures and Liabilities | 02/08 |
| - Centralization of the Continuous Bond Program at the CBP National Finance Center | 12/07 |
| - Administrative Rulings and Protests | 02/08 |
| - Foreign Repairs to American Vessels; Consolidation of Vessel Repair Units | 02/08 |
| - Class 9 Bonded Warehouse Procedures* | 02/08 |
Final Rule Stage
| Regulation Title | Target Date for Interim/ Final Rule or Action |
| - Remote Location Filing2 | 02/08 |
| - Country-of-Origin Marking | 02/08 |
| - User and Navigation Fees; Other Reimbursable Charges | 02/08 |
| - African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) | 02/08 |
| - U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) and Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) | 12/07 |
| - Dog and Cat Protection Act | 02/08 |
| - Trade Benefits Under AGOA | 02/08 |
| - Trade Benefits Under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) | 12/07 |
| - U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA) | 02/08 |
| - Recordation of Copyrights and Enforcement Procedures to Prevent Importation of Piratical Articles | 02/08 |
| - Country of Origin of Textile and Apparel Products | 11/07 |
| - Entry of Certain Softwood Lumber Products from Canada | 11/07 |
| - U.S.-Jordan FTA | 02/08 |
| - U.S.-Morocco FTA | 02/08 |
| - U.S.-Australia FTA | 12/07 |
| - U.S.-Bahrain FTA3,* | N/A |
| - Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity Through Partnership Encouragement Act of 20064,* | 11/07 |
| - Names Changes of Two DHS Component Agencies* | 12/07 |
| - Dominican Republic-Central America-U.S. FTA (DR-CAFTA) | 12/07 |
Long-Term Actions
Regulation Title
- Harbor Maintenance Fee
- Donated Cargo Exemption from Harbor Maintenance Fee
- Reconciliation
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)-Implementation of Duty-Deferral Program Provisions
* First appearance on Treasury's agenda
| 1This is the second time that this rule is being proposed; it was first proposed in March 1999. (See ITT's Online Archives or 03/17/99 news, 99031636, for BP summary of the first proposed rule.) 2Appeared in the proposed rule stage in the spring 2007 agenda. (See ITT's Online Archives or 03/30/07 and 04/02/07 news, 07033005 and 07040205, for BP's two-part summary on the proposed rule.) |
3See ITT's Online Archives or 10/23/07 news, 07102320, for the final part of BP's multi-part summary on the interim rule, with links to previous parts.
4See ITT's Online Archives or 06/27/07 news, 07062720, for the final part of BP's two-part summary on the interim rule, with links to previous parts.
(Note that previously BP obtained these agendas from the Federal Register; however, the Federal Register appears to list only some agency agendas, while other agency agendas appear to be incomplete.
See ITT's Online Archives or 12/11/07 news, 07121105, for BP summary on the availability of CBP and other Federal agency semi-annual regulatory agendas.)
Treasury's Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda available at www.reginfo.gov, by selecting Treasury as the agency.