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CBP Weekly TRQ/TPL Commodity Graph Report and Threshold to Fill List as of Oct. 20
October 23, 2014 |Customs

CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Oct. 20. This report (here) 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.

WCO Secretary General, U.S. Officials Discuss Customs Issues at Meeting
October 22, 2014 |Customs

World Customs Organization Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya recently addressed a U.S. interagency committee on WCO matters at the invitation of CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske, said the WCO on Oct. 22. Mikuriya highlighted “the importance of enhanced coordination in reducing transaction costs,” a well as WCO work on creating “standards and tools to address evolving and emerging risks in the global supply chain, including revenue, drugs, intellectual property and health and safety of consumers, security, and the environment, said the WCO. Members of the interagency committee raised issues including the need for political support for meaningful reform; coordinated operational activity, risk management and cargo targeting systems; enforcement follow-up including investigation and sharing information with other authorities; environmental protection; strategic goods control and consumer protection; global recovery standards; disaster relief including the response to issues such as the current Ebola outbreak; the use of product identification codes; and private sector consultation, said the WCO release.

CBP Releases Oct. 22 Customs Bulletin
October 22, 2014 |Customs

CBP released its Oct. 22 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 48, No. 42). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent Court of International Trade decisions.

CBP Issues Arrival Restrictions for Flights Carrying People who Recently Visited West Africa
October 22, 2014 |Customs

All U.S. flights carrying people who have recently traveled to, from or through West African countries that are dealing with the Ebola epidemic must land at one of five airports, said CBP in a notice. "I hereby direct all operators of aircraft carrying persons to the U.S. whose recent travel included Liberia, Guinea, or Sierra Leone to land at one of the following five airports: John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), New York; Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), New Jersey; Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD), Virginia; Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD), Illinois; and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), Georgia," said CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske in the notice. CBP and other agencies are adding enhanced screening protocols at the five airports, it said.

CBP Finds Taiwan to be Origin of Elliptical Machines
October 22, 2014 |Customs

CBP determined that Octane Fitness elliptical machines and option package kits originate in Taiwan or China for government procurement “buy American” purposes, the agency said in a notice. The most significant parts of the elliptical machines, the base and console, are made from start to finish in Taiwan, where there is also a "complex and meaningful" assembly prior to shipping, said CBP. Two of the option package kits, the stationary side steps and the upper body lockout kit, are entirely produced in Taiwan from starting components to finished products. The optional "adjustable dumbbells originate from China since packaging the adjustable dumbbells with the stationary side steps in the Cross Circuit Pro kit in Taiwan does not substantially transform the adjustable dumbbells into a new article of commerce having a new name, character or use," the agency said.