U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a detailed memorandum regarding the drawback changes that were enacted by the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-429).
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.
Effective February 28, 2005, the International Trade Administration (ITA) is revoking the antidumping (AD) duty orders on malleable cast iron pipe fittings from Japan and Korea as no domestic interested parties have participated in these five-year sunset reviews, which were initiated on January 3, 2005.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a detailed memorandum regarding the drawback changes that were enacted by the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-429).
Effective February 17, 2005, the International Trade Administration (ITA) announced that it is revoking the antidumping (AD) duty orders on cotton shop towels from Bangladesh and China, as well as the countervailing (CV) duty order on such merchandise from Pakistan. The ITA states that it is revoking these orders as no domestic interested parties responded to the ITA's notice initiating these five-year sunset reviews by the applicable deadline.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a QBT which lists the total quantity of TRQ raw cane sugar entered against each subject country's low-duty tariff rate quota (TRQ) during the October 1, 2003 - September 30, 2004 TRQ period. The report also lists the rollover quantity (the 'excess' quantity) for each subject country that resulted from the initial quantity being adjusted due to polarization testing. CBP states that these listed rollover quantities will be charged to the subject country's 2004-2005 TRQ level for raw cane sugar. (QBT-05-512, dated 04/08/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2005/05_512.ctt/05_512.doc )
Effective February 4, 2005, the International Trade Administration (ITA) is revoking the antidumping (AD) duty order on creatine monohydrate from China as no domestic interested parties participated in the ITA's five-year sunset review, which was initiated on January 3, 2005.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice stating that it is preliminarily rescinding the antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of stainless steel bar from Italy covering the period of March 1, 2003 through February 29, 2004 because the only producer/exporter subject to the review, UGITECH S.A. (UGITECH), was preliminarily found to have made no shipments of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period of review.
(a) The ITA preliminarily finds an AD duty rate of zero for CSN.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a press release on its final negative antidumping (AD) injury determination stating that the U.S. industry is neither materially injured nor threatened with material injury by reason of imports of live swine from Canada, which the International Trade Administration (ITA) has determined are sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message stating that the 2005-2006 tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for peanuts provided for in HTS Chapter 12, Additional U.S. Note (AUSN) 2 which opened on April 1, 2005 oversubscribed at opening moment for 'Other Countries or Areas.' The proration amount is 87.30305%. (See ITT's Online Archives or 04/07/05 news, 05040745 1, for BP summary of the results of the opening of this peanut TRQ.)(Adm: 05-0369, dated 04/06/05, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2005/2005-0369.ADM)