The International Trade Administration (ITA) is revoking in part the antidumping (AD) duty order on certain cased pencils from China with respect to the pencils described below.
Customs Duty
A Customs Duty is a tariff or tax which a country imposes on goods when they are transported across international borders. Customs Duties are used to protect countries' economies, residents, jobs, and environments, by limiting the flow of imported merchandise, especially restricted and prohibited goods, into the country. The Customs Duty Rate is a percentage determined by the value of the article purchased in the foreign country and not based on quality, size, or weight.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of oil country tubular goods, other than drill pipe, from Korea for the period of August 1, 2003 through July 31, 2004.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted its new Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) minimum-security criteria for sea carriers, which are effective as of March 1, 2006.
According to an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) press release, the interest rates for the third quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2006 (April 1, 2006 - June 30, 2006) for overpayments and underpayments of Customs duties are:
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice announcing that, along with the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), it has entered into an agreement with the Secretaria de Economia of Mexico (SE) pertaining to imports of gray portland cement and clinker from Mexico (Mexican cement).
Effective May 1, 2005, the International Trade Administration (ITA) is revoking the countervailing (CV) duty order on brass sheet and strip from France as it has determined in the final results of a full sunset review that revocation of the CV duty order would not be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of a countervailable subsidy.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message to advise the trade of the Automated Broker Interface (ABI) system requirements needed to file a U.S. - Central America - Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) claim.
In the March 8, 2006 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 40, No. 11), CBP issued a notice proposing to revoke three classification rulings on machines for producing metal-coated glass discs containing digitally-encoded data. CBP states that it is also proposing to revoke any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted its new Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) minimum-security criteria for highway carriers, which are effective as of March 13, 2006.
CBP has posted a summary of changes to the Automated Export System (AES) Trade Interface Requirements (AESTIR) on its Web site, indicating that Version 1.0 was changed on March 9, 2006 as follows: