U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message to ABI filers stating that there are additional edits in place at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding Phase 5 of the FDA/Bioterrorism Act (BTA) program for prior notice (PN) of imported food, resulting in additional rejects of PN transmissions.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a final rule, effective December 2, 2004, which adds a new 19 CFR 10.91 to the Customs regulations in order to establish regulatory procedures and requirements pursuant to the Product Development and Testing Act of 2000 (PDTA), regarding the duty-free entry of articles, commonly referred to as prototypes (for any industry), that are to be used exclusively in product development, testing, evaluation or quality control.
In the November 3, 2004 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 38, No. 45), CBP issued notices: (a) proposing to revoke a classification ruling on men's shirts of bamboo fabric, and (b) proposing to revoke a classification ruling on small chocolate lentils. CBP states that it is also proposing to revoke any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions that are contrary to its position in these notices.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stating that several hundred FDA/BTA entry lines were improperly rejected on Saturday, November 6, 2004 with "C" "Invalid PNC Number". The entries that received this reject will have to be corrected through the OGA correction function "CP" update sending the exact same data as in the original transmission. CBP states that this will "refresh" the FDA system and allow FDA to release the entry. (Adm: 04-2369, dated 11/08/04, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2004/2004-2369.ADM )
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has published a notice denying a petition submitted by Mast Industries, Inc. that had alleged that certain twill rayon/nylon/spandex warp stretch fabric, of certain specifications, classified in HTS 5516.22.0040, could not be supplied by the domestic industry in commercial quantities in a timely manner.
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has published a notice denying petitions submitted on behalf of Fishman & Tobin that had alleged that certain woven fabrics, of certain specifications, classified in HTS 5515.11.0005, could not be supplied by the domestic industry in commercial quantities in a timely manner.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has instituted an investigation, at the request of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), on the probable effect of a proposed modification to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) rules of origin for certain sanitary towels or tampons (sanitary articles) from Canada and Mexico, as U.S. negotiators have recently reached agreement in principle with these countries on such a modification.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a notice announcing the quota limit for China 332/432/632pt. established as a result of a China safeguard action. (See notice for CBP details on the visa requirement. Subscribers should note that CBP does not indicate that the quota limit applies to 632pt., but does correctly indicate the HTS numbers for 632pt. and that it may only be visaed as 632 or 332/432/632.) (See ITT's Online Archives or 11/01/04 news, 04110107, for BP summary of CITA's notice announcing this quota limit and visa requirement.) (QBT-04-020, dated 10/29/04, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/QBT2004/2004_020.ctt/04_020.doc)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has issued a news release announcing that it has approved an increase in the mandatory assessment under the Mushroom Promotion, Research and Consumer Information Program.
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has published a notice denying a petition submitted by Textiles Erre Emme Ltda. of Bogota, Colombia which had alleged that certain polyester monofilament texturized, raw, white yarn, of denier 20D/F1, classified in HTS 5402.33.30, could not be supplied by the domestic industry in commercial quantities in a timely manner.