CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Jan. 14. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, and tobacco; and certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying textile articles and/or other articles; the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc.
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CBP New York scheduled quarterly broker meetings for March 6, June, 5, Sept. 12 and Dec. 4, it said in an Informational Pipeline. All of the meetings will be in the Main Conference Room, 1100 Raymond Blvd., Newark, New Jersey, beginning at 10 a.m.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) will be chairman of the Trade Subcommittee in the 113th Congress, said a press release from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.). Nunes will replace Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), who will move to chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, as the Trade Subcommittee chairman. Rep. Charles Boustany (La.) will continue as chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight. Subcommittee membership will be determined once the remaining vacant Republican position of the full Committee has been filled, said the press release.
CBP posted documents on changes to the Customs and Trade Interface Requirements (CATAIR) Appendix T, which provides codes and qualifiers for the PGA Message Set. Changes include the removal of codes for the Fish and Wildlife Service and changes to codes for the Food Safety and Inspection Service. CBP also posted a list of changes to the IG PGA Message Set, including the removal of much Lacey Act-specific language, to make the text more generic.
In the Jan. 9 issue of the CBP Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 3), CBP published a notice proposing to revoke rulings and similar treatment regarding the tariff classification of docking stations with built-in radios for MP3 players.
New lobbyist registrations on trade issues include:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP disagreed with Apple's assertion that leather and plastic iPad Smart Covers should be classified as accessories for automatic data processing (ADP) machines, the agency said in a ruling. Apple sought internal advice on the issue in May through the Electronics Center of Excellence and Expertise in Long Beach, Calif. CBP responded to Apple's request in HQ H216396, dated Oct. 9.
CBP Seattle scheduled an informed compliance seminar on establishing customs bonded warehouses, it said in a trade information notice (TIN). The session will go from 10:30 a.m. to noon Jan. 23 at Federal Center South, 4735 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, WA. The event will address: