U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000220 to announce that a chapter and appendix of the Customs Automated Manifest Interface Requirements (CAMIR) Implementation Guide will be updated soon.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the following news releases:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site as of September 22, 2011, 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.
CBP has posted an updated list of companies/persons offering sea Automated Manifest System data processing services to the trade community.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated list of non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCC) participants in the sea Automated Manifest System (AMS).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an overview of the Trade Support Network (TSN) and frequently asked questions on how the TSN provides business input to CBP on modernization issues. TSN committees provide information relating to specific business processes to CBP, including Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) requirement recommendations. These committees are formed and disbanded in parallel with the stages of ACE development. Many of the committees have also formed subcommittees to concentrate expertise in a specific area, such as drawback, bonds, Foreign Trade Zones, etc. (The TSN will be meeting on September 22-23, 2011.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing the opening of the fiscal year 2012 tariff rate quota on mixed condiments and seasonings, as provided for in HTS Chapter 21, Additional U.S. Note 4. This TRQ opens on October 3, 2011 and the TRQ level for all countries except Mexico is 689,000 kg.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing the opening of the fiscal year 2012 tariff rate quota on sugar-containing products, as provided for in Harmonized Tariff Schedule Chapter 17, Additional U.S. Note 8. This TRQ opens on October 3, 2011 and the TRQ level for Canada is 59,250,000 kg and 5,459,000 kg for other countries (except Mexico).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing the opening of the fiscal year 2012 tariff rate quota on sugar blends, as provided for in Harmonized Tariff Schedule Chapter 17, Additional U.S. Note 7. This TRQ opens on October 3, 2011 and the TRQ level is zero. Such sugar blends must be entered at the over-quota (high) rate using the appropriate over-quota HTS number.
This summary report highlights the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels1 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” It also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.”