CBP Creates PATPA Web Page for TPA Instructions, Text, Laws

CBP issued a notice that it is has created a new web page for information on the U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement (PATPA), that is effective for goods entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption beginning Oct. 31, 2012. The web page currently has links to (i) CBP's implementation instructions and data elements, (ii) the text of the agreement on USTR's website, (iii) the 2012 HTS (Rev 1), with General Note 35, (iv) the ITC report containing the detailed Annexes, (v) the Presidential Proclamation (vi) the PATPA Implementation Act passed by Congress and signed into law by the President and (vii) sugar quota. CBP notes interim regulations will be posted when they become available.

The CSMS message is (here).

(See ITT's Online Archives 12111326 for summary of CBP's implementation instructions.)