U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum on the 2012 U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) tariff preference level (TPL) for certain cotton or man-made fiber (MMF) apparel goods provided for in HTS Chapter 61 or 62 that are cut or knit-to-shape, or both, and sewn or otherwise assembled in Oman from fabric or yarn produced or obtained outside the territory of Oman or of the U.S. (“third country”).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of January 9, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. These messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the weekly foreign currency exchange rate multipliers for the week ending January 6, 2012.
In late December 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that 13 CBP ports were starting to process rail and sea manifests in the "CBP port phase" of the ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1) pilots, which began in November 2011.
The Los Angeles Field Operations branch of U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a Public Bulletin to announce that the LA/Long Beach Seaport is posting the “official” Bulletin Notices of Liquidation -- CBP Forms 4333 -- on a compact disk as of January 6, 2012 for three port codes. According to CBP sources, this change facilitates requests for copies, as it will be less burdensome than copying from the paper version.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a 2009 Great Idea Form (GIF) on a request from the trade community for the ability of Customs brokers to upload employee information from an Excel spreadsheet to the ACE Portal to meet the 19 CFR Part 111 requirement to provide CBP with a list of broker employees. The GIF notes that the functionality delivered with ESAR A1 does not allow the mid to large size broker to take advantage of the ACE Portal for this requirement.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of January 6, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. These messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum on the 2012 tariff rate quotas for agricultural products described in HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter XIV, U.S. Notes 3 through 12, with respect to the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (BFTA).