The International Trade Commission (ITC) has posted to its Web site an updated version of the 2008 Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. (HTS) dated July 1, 2007 (Supplement 1).
On June 30, 2008, President Bush issued Proclamation 8272 to modify duty-free treatment and certain designations under the Generalized System of Preferences and the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), and make technical changes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
On June 30, 2008, President Bush issued Proclamation 8272 to modify duty-free treatment and certain designations under the Generalized System of Preferences and the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), and make technical changes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
The U.S. and Vietnam issued a joint statement regarding the June 24, 2008 bilateral meeting between President Bush and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in which they discussed progress made since their last meeting in 2006 and committed to certain efforts to expand trade and investment, among other things.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued a notice announcing the initiation of a review to consider designating the Socialist Republic of Vietnam as a Generalized System of Preferences beneficiary developing country (BDC).
In testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, the Government Accountability Office identifies the U.S. trade preference programs due to expire this year, the policy trade-offs associated with such programs, and evaluates the overall U.S. approach to trade preference programs, among other things.
In February 2008, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative issued its full calendar year 2007 import statistics relating to competitive need limitation (CNL) waivers under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program, including those products whose CNL waivers may be revoked due to new CNL rules.
The Senate Finance Committee has announced that it will be holding an oversight hearing on June 12, 2008 on U.S. trade preference programs.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice announcing that the fourth tranche for the fiscal year 2008 specialty sugar tariff rate quota that opened on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 oversubscribed at opening moment. The pro rata percentage is 60.31951% or 0.6031951.
The Government Accountability Office has issued a report to Congressional requestors on U.S. trade preference programs.