In the Oct. 10 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 42), CBP a notice of revocation and modification of rulings and treatment regarding the tariff classification of work footwear .
Tim Warren
Timothy Warren is Executive Managing Editor of Communications Daily. He previously led the International Trade Today editorial team from the time it was purchased by Warren Communications News in 2012 through the launch of Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. Tim is a 2005 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and lives in Maryland with his wife and three kids.
CBP posted a list of frequently asked questions on the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS), which took effect for qualifying goods entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on March 15. The provides insight on KFTA rules of origin, regional value content the merchandise processing fee exemption, among other things.
CBP issued a memorandum announcing that the first tranche for the fiscal year 2012 specialty sugar tariff rate quota (TRQ) that opened Oct. 12 wasn't oversubscribed at opening moment.
CBP issued a memorandum saying the second tranche (period 2) for the fiscal year 2013 specialty sugar tariff rate quota opens Oct. 26, at 1 p.m. EDT, or its equivalent in other time zones. The second tranche has a specialty sugar allocation of 35,245,000 kg and is expected to oversubscribe at opening moment.
CBP posted the October 2012 customs broker exam (here) and answer key (here).
CBP is adopting a final rule amending its regulations for the preferential tariff treatment and other customs-related provisions of the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA or Peru FTA) by adding a new subpart Q to 19 CFR Part 10, etc., the agency said in a Oct. 18 Federal Register notice. CBP said it received no comments on its interim final rule, adopted in November, and only made a technical change from the interim rule, available (here).
CBP posted updated spreadsheets showing active AD/CVD cases and the associated case numbers, ISO country codes, tariff numbers, and short descriptions of each case as of Oct. 1. Active antidumping cases are (here). Active countervailing cases are (here).
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Oct. 15. 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.
CBP will host a trade forum on Fines, Penalties and Forfeitures (FP&F) at 10 a.m. PST Oct. 31, CBP said in a public bulletin. The forum will be at 25 Harbor Plaza, Long Beach, Calif. 90802. The presentation will be conducted by Robert Thierry, director of FP&F and Jeff DeHaven, deputy director of FP&F.
CBP summarized the modifications to textile and apparel preference rules as part of the Dominican Republic-Central America-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). On Sept. 26, the U.S Trade Representative published a notice in the Federal Register (77 FR 59241) announcing Oct. 13 as the effective date for these certain modifications to the textile and apparel preference rules.