The Canadian Association of Importers and Exporters (I.E. Canada) voiced some concerns for the requirement to make entry for residue as part of CBP's planned pilot program. CBP is in the process of developing a pilot program that would test new requirements for filing entries on residue contained within Instruments of International Traffic (IIT). I.E. Canada filed the comments with CBP ahead of a planned Federal Register notice detailing the pilot.
The recent list of accomplishments as part of the U.S.-Canada "Beyond the Border" action plan points to good work by both governments in improving trade processing between the countries, said the Express Association of America (EAA) in a statement. “The progress we see on implementing the Beyond the Border Action Plan is very encouraging,” said Michael Mullen, Executive Director of the EAA. “The agreement has very ambitious deadlines for establishing new trade facilitation measures, but both Governments are fully engaged in meeting the targets."
Several government officials involved in trade will speak at the U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel (USA-ITA) annual conference Jan. 9 in New York, the association said in a press release. CBP Assistant Commissioner Al Gina will provide the lunch keynote, while Consumer Products Safety Commissioner Nancy Nord will do the regulatory issues keynote, said USA-ITA. Additional speakers include Kim Glas, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Textiles and Apparel at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and John Leonard, Acting Executive Director of Trade Policy & Programs at CBP.
The two customs reauthorization bills recently introduced in the House would both make several changes to the process and rules governing drawback, including a revision to the formula for calculating the drawback amount.
House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) is now free of cancer following chemotherapy treatments for non-Hodgkins large B-cell lymphoma, his office said in a press release.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP posted a Dec. 17 version of its CF 1400 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Entrances) electronic query report of the Vessel Management System (VMS), in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by entrances. CBP also posted a version of its CF 1401 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Clearances) electronic query report of the VMS, in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by clearances.
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Dec. 17. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, and tobacco; and certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying textile articles and/or other articles; the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc.
CBP issued a memorandum announcing that the 2013 tariff rate quota for milk and cream, fluid or frozen, fresh or sour, provided for in Chapter 4, Additional U.S. Note 5 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule will open on January 2, 2013 with a low-duty quantity of 6,694,840 liters.
CBP issued a memorandum saying the 2013 preliminary low-duty tariff rate quota limit for tuna and skipjack, in airtight containers, not in oil, in containers, weighing with their contents not over 7 kg each, is 15,843,092 kg.