U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site various materials related to presentations made at the June 20-22, 2007 meeting of the Trade Support Network (TSN).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice to its Web site announcing that it will be holding the Automated Commercial Environment Exchange VI conference in Brooklyn, NY on July 30 - August 1, 2007.
According to numerous press and government reports, China announced its decision to cut or do away with value-added tax rebates for exports of more than 2,800 commodities, effective July 1, 2007. This change will affect the profit margins of many industries, including energy and resource intensive products such as cement, fertilizer and non-ferrous metals, as well as products that cause trade frictions, such as garments, toys, steel products and motorcycles.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a notice announcing that it has completed the necessary programming changes for automated filing through the Automated Broker Interface (ABI) for the new textile provision and "abundant supply" apparel provision recently added to the African Growth and Opportunity Act for lesser developed beneficiary countries (LDBCs). CBP states that claims for preferential tariff treatment under the new AGOA provision in HTS 9819.15.10 (denim) for qualifying merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after October 1, 2006 may be filed via ABI.
Below is information regarding upcoming events for which Certified Customs Specialists can earn continuing education credits.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.):
Broker Power is making its lists of 2007 "General" Column 1 duty rates for knit and crocheted (knit) and woven apparel in Chapters 61 and 62 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule available as a "single package."
Shippers' NewsWire reports that the third erroneous shipment of beef mistakenly sent to South Korea was intended for U.S. use and was sent by a South Korean company in California that exported the products to Korea. Korea's government stopped all U.S. beef imports for four days while it investigated the first two erroneous shipments, which sent 66.4 tons of U.S. beef to Korea in violation of the country's import rules. (SNW, dated 06/21/07, www.americanshipper.com)
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.