The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the preliminary results of the following antidumping (AD) duty administrative reviews:
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 issued messages on a number of antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty actions, many of which (marked by an * in the action column) were previously published in the Federal Register by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and summarized in International Trade Today.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a memorandum containing its instructions on the filing and substantiation of claims for preferential tariff treatment made under the U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement (UAFTA), as highlighted below.
The European Commission has drafted a regulation to lift the additional customs duties it has imposed on certain U.S.-origin products in connection with the European Union's (EU's) dispute over the U.S. Foreign Sales Corporation (FSC)/FSC Replacement and Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act (ETI) tax regime.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of certain stainless steel butt-weld pipe fittings from Taiwan for the period of June 1, 2002 through May 31, 2003.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a third draft version, 'Draft 3,' dated January 7, 2005, of CBP's draft new C-TPAT Security Standards for Importers, which is available for distribution to subscribers.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published its semi-annual regulatory agenda, which contains certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulatory rulemakings (rulemakings).
According to an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) press release, the interest rates for the second quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2005 (January 1, 2005 - March 31, 2005) for overpayments and underpayments of Customs duties are:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that the 2005 low-duty tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)/Mexico peanuts provided for in HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter VI, U.S. Note 16, which opened on Monday, January 3, 2005, did not oversubscribe at the opening. Therefore, all entries presented at opening have been charged and may be released. (See ITT's Online Archives or 12/22/04 news, 04122235 2, for BP summary on CBP's notice announcing this 2005 TRQ.) (QBT-05-501, dated 01/06/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2005/05_501.ctt/05_501.doc)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice to its Web site entitled "Clarification of Certain Scope AD/CVD Guidelines" for the Canada Softwood Lumber cases C-122-839 and A-122-838.