U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice on its Web site , entitled Notice of Examination for April 2006, which announces that the next Customs Broker License Examination will be held on Monday, April 3, 2006.
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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted the following to its Web site:
In the November 23, 2005 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 39, No. 48), CBP issued notices: (a) proposing to revoke a classification ruling on a certain silk capelet, and (b) modifying or revoking six classification rulings on certain sports equipment. CBP states that it is also proposing to revoke or is revoking any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions that are contrary to its position in these notices.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of November 28, 2005. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (CFTA) tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 11/28/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
On November 16, 2005, the Senate passed S. 695, the New Shipper Review Amendment Act of 2005, without amendment, regarding antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty new shipper reviews. S. 695 would:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that the 2006 tariff-rate quota (TRQ) on dried milk and dried cream as provided for in HTS Chapter 4, Additional U.S. Note (AUSN) 8 will open on Tuesday, January 3, 2005 at 12 noon E.S.T., or its equivalent in other time zones, with a low-duty quantity of 3,321,300 kg. CBP notes that low-duty imports described in HTS Chapter 4, AUSN 8 are subject to agriculture licensing. (See CBP's notice for list of applicable HTS numbers as well as special instructions on (i) when no license is used or presented, (ii) low-duty exclusion for Mexico, and (iii) high-duty reporting instructions for Canada, Mexico, Jordan, Singapore, Chile, and Australia.) (QBT-05-545, dated 11/22/05, available at http://www.customs.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2005/05_545.ctt/05_545.doc)
On November 15, 2005, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) posted a notice to its Web site announcing that the first staged entry period for overshipments of socks originating in China that were exported during the period of October 29, 2004 - October 28, 2005 will open1 on November 29, 2005 at 12:00 p.m. EST or its equivalent in other time zones for approximately 2,121,700 dozen pairs.
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has issued a notice stating that, effective November 28, 2005, certain textile and apparel goods from Sierra Leone are eligible for duty-free treatment under the "handloomed, handmade, folklore articles, or ethnic printed fabrics" provision of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of brake rotors from China.
Effective April 18, 2005, the International Trade Administration (ITA) is revoking the countervailing (CV) duty order on top-of-the-stove stainless steel (TOS) cookware from Taiwan as the International Trade Commission (ITC) has determined that revocation of this CV duty order would not be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury to an industry in the U.S.