The Washington Trade Daily (WTD) has reported that the House of Representatives has passed the conference version of HR 4520, which would repeal the World Trade Organization (WTO)-illegal Foreign Sales Corporation/Extraterritorial Income Act (FSC/ETI). According to WTD, the Senate is expected to act on HR 4520 on October 8th or 9th. (See ITT's Online Archives or 10/08/04 news, 04100899 1, for BP summary of the Conference Committee's approval of HR 4520.) (WTD Pub 10/08/04, www.washingtontradedaily.com)
U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a message from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to all ABI filers of prior notice (PN) data for imported food, in order to instruct filers on how to avoid certain PN rejects which began in August 2004 when the FDA implemented additional PN edits.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made a preliminary affirmative antidumping (AD) duty determination that certain circular welded carbon quality line pipe from China is being, or is likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message stating that the snow day it previously granted due to an ABI-ACH payment problem spans two days - Thursday, September 30, 2004 and Friday, October 1, 2004. CBP states that the problem that prevented the acceptance of ABI payment authorization transactions 'QN' and 'PN' was not finally resolved until the weekend of October 2, 2004.
President Bush has issued Proclamation 7826, which extends duty-free tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for certain agricultural products from Israel that are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after January 1, 2004 through the close of December 31, 2008.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty investigation of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) from Taiwan.
In the September 29, 2004 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 38, No. 40), CBP issued notices: (a) modifying a classification ruling on certain hospital garments/patient pajamas, and (b) modifying a classification ruling on non-electric, metal bicycle bells. CBP states that it is also revoking any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions that are contrary to its position in these notices.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made preliminary affirmative antidumping (AD) duty determinations that certain circular welded carbon-quality line pipe from Korea and Mexico is being, or is likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has issued a final rule, effective October 13, 2004, that makes certain changes and clarifications to a January 2000 interim final rule that allows the entry of yellowfin tuna and tuna products (tuna) into the U.S. under certain conditions from nations fully complying with the International Dolphin Conservation Program (IDCP) and the Agreement on the IDCP.
CIT rules in favor of Customs' classification of Vitamin C drops. In Warner-Lambert Company v. U.S., the Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled in favor of U.S. Customs that Halls DefenseTM Vitamin C Supplement Drops were properly classified as sugar confectionary in HTS 1704.90.35 (6.1% or 5.8%, depending on the year of entry) rather than as medicaments in HTS 3004.50.5010 (duty-free).