U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has published a final rule which amends the Customs Regulations effective January 5, 2004 regarding the advance electronic presentation of information pertaining to cargo (sea, air, rail, or truck) prior to its being brought into, or sent from, the U.S.
On January 14, 2004, the International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a news release on its preliminary negative antidumping (AD) injury determination stating that there is no reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports of ready-to-cook kosher chicken and parts thereof from Canada.
(a) For previously reviewed or investigated companies not listed above, the cash deposit rate will be the company-specific rate established for the most recent period.
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.
In the January 7, 2004 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 38, No. 2), CBP issued a notice proposing to modify a classification ruling regarding certain knit camisoles. CBP states that it is also proposing to revoke any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions that are contrary to its position in this notice.
The Journal of Commerce (JoC) has reported that a group known as the West Coast Marine Terminal Operators has announced a plan to pay for and install radio frequency identification tags on each of the estimated 30,000 trucks that haul containers in and out of West Coast terminals, with the system possibly being ready for use in March 2004. According to JoC, these tags would transmit information specifically related to the truck itself. (JoC, dated 12/22/03-01/04/04, www.joc.com)
Broker Power has listed the 2004 general (column 1) duty rates for certain knit and crocheted apparel that is subject to a wool/fine animal hair (wool) category number. (The fiber that is in chief weight is the first fiber in the written description.)
The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has issued a final rule, effective January 15, 2004, which amends its regulations at 7 CFR 319 on the importation of logs, lumber, and other unmanufactured wood articles into the U.S. to allow wood chips derived from temperate species of Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus) from South America to be treated with a surface pesticide prior to importation as an alternative to the existing treatments.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a press release on its remand determination in response to a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Panel's decision regarding the final determination in the countervailing (CV) duty investigation on softwood lumber from Canada (C-122-839).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice advising the trade of the upcoming system requirements for filing a U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (SFTA) claim through the Automated Broker Interface (ABI).