In mid-November 2005, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a notice announcing that the next meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection and Related Functions (COAC) would be held on December 1, 2005 in Washington, DC. (This committee was previously called the "Treasury Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of the U.S. Customs Service.")
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of November 28, 2005. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (CFTA) tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 11/28/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of November 21, 2005. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (CFTA) tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 11/21/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a document entitled CTLSET Service Message. CBP states that this CTLSET Implementation Guideline identifies the Service Segments required to envelope the UN Edifact messages sent to the CBP Automated Customs Environment (ACE) application. CBP notes that UN Edifact response messages returned to the participating trading partner from ACE will contain similar content. (CBP guideline, dated 11/07/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/elvis/ctlset.xml)
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a notice announcing that the next meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection and Related Functions (COAC) will be held on December 1, 2005 in Washington, DC. (This committee was previously called the "Treasury Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of the U.S. Customs Service.")
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted to its Web site its quarterly report on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) entitled Report to Congress: The Automated Commercial Environment. This report is dated June 30, 2005 and covers the April 1, 2005 - June 30, 2005 period.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a revised (clarified) version of its document entitled: "Periodic Monthly Statement Application Procedures for Non-Portal Accounts and C-TPAT Certified Partners Who Hold Portal Accounts."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice to its Web site stating that the first tranche (opening) of the tariff rate quota (TRQ) for specialty sugar closed at opening moment on October 26, 2005. The pro-rata percentage is .1722 or 17.22%. For those receiving allocations, CBP states that the importer can determine how their allocation is distributed among eligible entries (see notice for details). Note that the other three tranches (TRQ allotments) for specialty sugar will open on November 9, March 15 and June 7, respectively. (See ITT's Online Archives or 10/20/05 news, 05102015 for BP summary of CBP notice on all four tranches.) (QBT-05-539, dated 10/31/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2005/05_539.ctt/05_539.doc )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message stating that local CBP management has granted two additional snow days, October 27 - 28, 2005, for all south Florida ports due to the effects of Hurricane Wilma. CBP adds that should it be necessary to grant additional snow days during the week of October 31, 2005, this information will be announced in a future message. (See ITT's Online Archives or 10/31/05 news, 05103135 1 for BP summary of CBP announcement of snow days for Oct 24-26, 2005 for all south Florida ports.) (Adm: 05-1262, dated 10/28/05, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2005/2005-1262.ADM )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site (and issued as an administrative message) a document entitled "Periodic Monthly Statement Application Procedures for non-Portal Accounts and C-TPAT Certified Partners Who Hold Portal Accounts."