CBP issued a memorandum announcing that the first tranche for the fiscal year 2012 specialty sugar tariff rate quota (TRQ) that opened Oct. 12 wasn't oversubscribed at opening moment.
CBP will host a Trade Fair to provide members of the trade community the opportunity to speak one on one with representatives of federal agencies involved with imports and exports, CBP said in a CSMS message. The event will be Nov. 8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the M.O. Campbell Educational Center located at 1865 Aldine Bender Road, Houston, TX 77032.
In the Oct. 10 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 42), CBP a notice of revocation and modification of rulings and treatment regarding the tariff classification of work footwear .
CBP posted a list of frequently asked questions on the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS), which took effect for qualifying goods entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on March 15. The provides insight on KFTA rules of origin, regional value content the merchandise processing fee exemption, among other things.
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Oct. 15. 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 will host a trade forum on Fines, Penalties and Forfeitures (FP&F) at 10 a.m. PST Oct. 31, CBP said in a public bulletin. The forum will be at 25 Harbor Plaza, Long Beach, Calif. 90802. The presentation will be conducted by Robert Thierry, director of FP&F and Jeff DeHaven, deputy director of FP&F.
CBP posted the October 2012 customs broker exam (here) and answer key (here).
CBP is correcting 19 CFR in Section 12.112, the agency said in Oct. 18 Federal Register notice. The correction replaces “(Index of Pesticide Products located in the Environmental Protection Agency's handbook entitled Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings, found at http://www.epa.gov)” with “(Environmental Protection Agency Form 3540-1)”.
CBP has stopped honoring preference claims for automotive parts under the Automotive Products Trade Act, special program indicator "B" and "B#," the agency said in a CSMS message. Although the APTA is still in effect, and can be found in Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. (HTSUS) General Note 5(a)(v), its utility has been supplanted by NAFTA, and its applicability to automotive parts ended when the outstanding "bona fide" letters expired in 1997, said CBP.
CBP summarized the modifications to textile and apparel preference rules as part of the Dominican Republic-Central America-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). On Sept. 26, the U.S Trade Representative published a notice in the Federal Register (77 FR 59241) announcing Oct. 13 as the effective date for these certain modifications to the textile and apparel preference rules.