U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memo on the increase of the fiscal year 2008 refined sugar tariff rate quota limit by a total of 272,155 metric tons (none of which is for specialty sugars) and extension of the refined sugar quota period through December 31, 2008. (See ITT's Online Archives or 08/11/08 news, 08081115, for previous BP summary.) (QBT-08-519, posted 08/13/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2008/08_519.ctt/08_519.pdf)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice entitled Notice of Examination: October 2008 Customs Broker License Examination, which announces that the next customs broker license exam will be held on Monday, October 6, 2008.
In E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company v. U.S., the Court of International Trade ruled on the amount of manufacturing substitution drawback due to Dupont from Customs on a single entry.
In the June 11, 2008 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 42, No. 25), CBP published a notice proposing to modify one ruling as follows:
On June 18, 2008, both the House of Representatives and the Senate overrode President Bush's veto of H.R. 6124, the complete (all 15 titles) version of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (the Farm Bill).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an "ACE Entry Summary, Accounts and Revenue at a Glance" fact sheet.
The following Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Court of International Trade cases on international trade issues were dated/decided during May 27 - May 29, 2008:
Both the House of Representatives and the Senate have overridden President Bush's veto of H.R. 2419, the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (the Farm Bill).
The House and Senate have both passed the conference version of H.R. 2419, the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Farm Bill), by greater than two-thirds majorities.