U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued two notices regarding the amendments made by the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004 (Public Law (P.L.) 108-429) to African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) textiles and apparel.
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has issued a notice requesting public comments by January 4, 2005 regarding a "commercial availability" petition it received under the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) on behalf of Fishman & Tobin:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued two notices regarding the amendments to the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) for textiles and apparel authorized by the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004 (Public Law (P.L.) 108-429).
CBP Memo on Effective Date of Protest, 1520(c), and Other Provisions of the Miscellaneous Trade Bill
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a memorandum on the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004 (Public Law (P.L.) 108-429), which was signed into law on December 3, 2004.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that the 2005 tariff-rate quota (TRQ) on dried milk, dried cream, and dried whey, provided for in HTS Chapter 4, Additional U.S. Note (AUSN) 12 will open on Monday, January 3, 2005 at 12 noon E.S.T., or its equivalent in other time zones.
The State Department has issued a public notice announcing various upcoming meetings of the International Telecommunication Advisory Committee (ITAC) to prepare for the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG) Meeting and ITU-T Study Groups 3, 4, and 17 meetings. According to the notice, ITAC will meet with an agenda for preparations for an upcoming ITU-T TSAG meeting on: January 19, February 2, February 16 (teleconference) and March 2, 2005.
On December 3, 2004, President Bush signed into law the conference version of H.R. 1047, the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004 (Public Law (P.L.) 108-429).
According to State Department sources, the State Department has implemented a change in policy with respect to the importation of shrimp and shrimp products (shrimp) into the U.S. from countries that have not been certified as meeting the requirements of Section 609 of P.L. 101-162, as follows:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced the 2005 tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for agricultural products described in HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter X, U.S. Notes 3 through 12 with respect to the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (SFTA).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of December 13, 2004. 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, and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics under HTS 9902.51.11 & 9902.51.12, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 12/13/04, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)