CBP has issued an ABI administrative message stating that on December 8, 2006 the port of Chicago will be moving to the Rosemont, Illinois facility. Due to the move, people should not to deliver any duty payments or customs paperwork to the port of Chicago office. As a result, December 8, 2006 will be considered a snow day. CBP is extending one additional day without penalty for the filing and payment of entry summaries due on that day. (CBP Adm: 06-1204, dated 12/05/06, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2006/2006-1204.ADM)
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) 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 ITA also issues other notices which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance.
The U.S. is preparing to implement hundreds of tariff changes in the 2007 U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) in order to conform U.S. law to international Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature changes recommended for adoption by the World Customs Organization (WCO), and to certain Harmonized System Committee (HSC) decisions necessary to ensure uniform application of the nomenclature, etc.
Broker Power is able to provide quota prices (generally twice a month) for a limited number of textile and apparel categories from the People's Republic of China (China) that are subject to "agreed quotas" and publicly traded. (These publicly traded quota prices have been provided by a Hong Kong quota broker.)
CBP has posted to its Web site a notice announcing that the 2007 tariff-rate quota (TRQ) on mandarin oranges (satsumas) in airtight containers will open on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 at 12 p.m. EST, or its equivalent in other time zones with a low-duty quantity of 40,000,000 kg. (See CBP's notice for list of applicable HTS numbers.) (QBT-06-579, dated 11/28/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2006/06_579.ctt/06_579.doc)
The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.). Updates are listed under "What's New" on its Web site:
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) 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 ITA also issues other notices which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) 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 ITA also issues other notices which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice announcing that the 2007 annual $125 user fee that is assessed for each Customs broker permit and national permit held by an individual, partnership, association, or corporation is due by January 19, 2007.
CBP has recently posted the following to its Web site: