CBP has posted an updated version of its points of contact document for Interagency Requirements. The contacts are as follows:
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.
Suzanne Barr, chief of staff at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), reportedly resigned on Sept. 1 amid sexual discrimination allegations at the agency. ICE didn't return a request for comment. "The resignation of Suzanne Barr raises the most serious questions about management practices and personnel policies at the Department of Homeland Security," said House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) in a statement. "The Committee on Homeland Security will continue and intensify its review of all the facts regarding this case and DHS personnel practices across the board."
In the Aug. 29 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 35), CBP published two notices that propose to revoke a ruling and similar treatment regarding the tariff classification of chili powder blends.
CBP provided detailed guidance on the filing procedures and timelines involved with the Centers of Excellence and Expertise (CEEs) in a new document on CEE Test Guidelines and the "Responsibilities and Procedures for Participating Accounts."
In the Aug. 29 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 36), CBP published two notices that propose to revoke or modify two rulings and similar treatment regarding the tariff classification of tobacco wrappers and bearings and housings.
New lobbyist registrations on trade issues include:
CBP issued its Aug. 29 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 36), which contains 5 notices of the following ruling actions:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
Eight Democrats in the House of Representatives wrote U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk Aug. 28 to allow them to observe negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, set to happen in Leesburg, Va., Sept. 6-15. “Last month, we were among the 134 House members that wrote to urge you and your staff to engage in broader and deeper consultations with members of the full range of congressional committees whose jurisdiction is implicated by the TPP’s expansive scope,” the members wrote. “We also requested that you continue past U.S. practice and release the draft TPP text, as a past administration did with respect to Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) draft text in 2001. We have had neither a response to that letter nor offers of enhanced consultations and access to draft text. Thus, so as to ensure that there is ample opportunity for Congress to have a clear understanding of and input on critical policies that will have broad ramifications for years to come, we are requesting that you facilitate our ability to observe the TPP negotiations directly.”
CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Aug. 28. 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.