U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced certain Colombia FTA TRQs that take effect May 15, 2012. The TRQs apply to sugars, beef, dairy, ice cream and tobacco -- goods of Colombia under the terms of General Note 34 to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). QUOTA PERIOD: May 15, 2012 through December 31, 2012 RESTRAINT LEVEL:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has clarified that protests may be submitted for Generalized System of Preference (i) entries that were filed with the special program indicator (SPI) “A” at entry summary but for which the automated scripting failed to liquidate the entry with a refund, and (ii) entries for which a refund was requested retroactively but were denied in error.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said May 15, 2012, system changes associated with the Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement are scheduled to be ready beginning May 16, 2012 at 7:00 a.m.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection chose Patrick Wilson as Area Port Director for the Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., port of entry, said CBP. Wilson previously was Assistant Port Director for passenger operations for CBP in Sault Sainte Marie and oversaw immigration policy, enforcement and CBP’s trusted traveler programs. Current Port Director Devin Chamberlain will take over as Area Port Director at the Detroit Metro Airport in Romulus, assuming responsibility for CBP passenger and air cargo operations for Detroit Metro,
The following are the trade-related hearings scheduled from May 14-18, 2012:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection provided information on the reallocation of additional tariff-rate quota for raw sugar and reallocation of unused 2012 raw sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ). The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative provided notice of the country-by-country allocations for both categories, effective April 26, 2012.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released its May 9 Customs Bulletin. While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does list recent information collection notices and recent Court of International Trade decisions.
The Senate plans to consider a bi-partisan bill to reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank on May 14, 2012, according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) The bill, which was already approved by the House, was scheduled for consideration May 10, 2012, but that was delayed due to a set of amendments from Senate Republicans.