The Coast Guard has issued a press release stating that it has completed its first week of enforcing the new international and domestic maritime security requirements of the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code and Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) that took effect on July 1, 2004.
According to The Wall Street Journal, China's assistant minister of commerce said that domestic companies are increasing investment in developing countries that fear competition from China's massive textile export sector. The article notes that the assistant minister did not specify the value or the target countries of such investment. (WSJ, 06/29/04, www.wsj.com )
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a notice announcing that, effective June 21, 2004, it has vacated the limited exclusion order and cease and desist order issued in its Section 337 investigation of certain abrasive products made using a process for powder preforms, and products containing same (Inv. No. 337-TA-449).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice which supercedes a previous notice regarding the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreement's (CITA's) designation that certain ring spun micro modal/pima cotton yarn for use in women's and girls' knit blouses, shirts, lingerie and underwear is in short supply (i.e., "commercially unavailable") under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA), and the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice regarding the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreement's (CITA's) designation that certain combed compact yarns of wool or fine hair, classified in HTS 5107.10, 5107.20 or 5108.20, for use in apparel articles are in short supply ("commercially unavailable") under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA), and the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice to remind CBP field personnel that all imports of raw sugar must be sampled and sent to CBP laboratories for determining the out-turn weight. CBP states that the final out-turn weight is critical to the correct charging of quota to a country's limit.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an updated list of non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC) participants in the Sea Automated Manifest System (AMS). CBP's list of NVOCC Sea AMS participants is updated as of June 29, 2004.
(a) For previously reviewed or investigated companies not participating in this review, the cash deposit rate would continue to be the company-specific rate published for the most recent period.
The Treasury Department (Treasury) has published its semi-annual regulatory agenda, which contains certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulatory rulemakings (rulemakings).
On June 7, 2004, President Bush signed into law H.J. Res. 97 (Public Law (P.L.) 108-272), which approves the renewal of import restrictions contained in section 3(a)(1) of the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003 (Act, P.L. 108-61) for an additional year.