Treasury Dept. Regulatory Agenda Mentions Rules on Returned Goods, District Permits

The Treasury Department published its spring 2019 regulatory agenda for CBP. The agenda includes a new rulemaking that would amend CBP's regulations to revise the language on duty-free goods returned. The agency will try to issue an interim final rule by August this year. Specifically, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act extended duty-free treatment to products of non-U.S. origin exported and returned to the U.S. within three years after having been exported, and created a separate tariff schedule "subheading for returned U.S. Government property allowing duty-free return of U.S. Government property without time and origin restrictions."

Another new rule mentioned involves removing the references to customs brokers district permit fees. CBP has previously mentioned that it plans to propose a rule that would expand the scope of the national permit for brokers (see 1712150011). "By transitioning to a national permit, CBP also proposes to eliminate the requirements for brokers to maintain district permits," so this proposal would remove references to the district permit fees, it said. The only other new rule is a final rule on import restrictions for archaeological material from Honduras.

The agenda lists Treasury's CBP rulemakings that are pending at the proposed, interim final, final and completed stages, as well as rulemakings that are long-term actions. The agenda lists the regulation title; past regulation(s), if any; the time frame for the next regulatory action(s), if any; a brief description of the regulation; and a contact party name and telephone number.

Agenda Highlights

Highlights of Treasury's CBP rulemakings are below. New items are marked with an asterisk (*).