U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice on the Uruguay Round price-based "additional duty" (safeguard) provisions of HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter IV for certain agricultural products imported into the U.S. from all countries except Canada, Mexico, Jordan, Singapore, or Chile.
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 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).
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has amended its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of tapered roller bearings and parts thereof, finished and unfinished from China for the period of June 1, 1997 through May 31, 1998 as there is now a final and conclusive court decision with respect to Luoyang Bearing Factory (Luoyang) and Premier Bearing and Equipment, Ltd. (Premier).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice stating that on January 9, 2004, Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge announced the opening of the first designated Free and Secure Trade (FAST) lane on the Northern Border. CBP notes that this announcement was made during opening ceremonies held at the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, MI, one of the most heavily used commercial crossings between Canada and the U.S.
(a) Sanjian has an AD duty rate of zero; no cash deposits will be required although suspension of liquidation will continue.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site its weekly quota commodity report as of January 6, 2004. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cocoa, tobacco, certain Jordan Free Trade Agreement (JFTA), Chile Free Trade Agreement (UCFTA), and Singapore Free Trade Agreement (SFTA) TRQs, etc. This report also includes TRQs on certain HTS Chapter 52 cotton, upland cotton under HTS Chapter 99, the UCFTA, SFTA, CBTPA, AGOA, ATPDEA, and NAFTA tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics under HTS 9902.51.11 & 9902.51.12, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 01/06/04, available at http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice announcing that the tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for dairy products, provided for in HTS Chapter 4, Additional U.S. Note (AUSN) 10, which opened on January 2, 2004, partially oversubscribed at the opening. According to CBP, the All Other Countries limit oversubscribed and the minimum access quantity for Belgium/Denmark (aggregated) was exceeded. However, the minimum access quantity for Australia was not reached and is therefore still available.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) is amending its antidumping (AD) duty order, as well as its final and amended final affirmative AD duty determinations, on bulk aspirin from China as there is now a final court decision regarding this investigation.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued two notices announcing that it has commenced two reviews to provide advice to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) regarding two separate petitions filed under the "commercial availability" provisions of the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) on certain shirting fabrics. According to the ITC, it will submit its advice to USTR in a classified report by January 29, 2004, and issue a public version soon thereafter. Written comments due to the ITC by January 14, 2003. (See ITT's Online Archives or 12/30/03 news, 03123025, for BP summary of the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreement's (CITA's) related notice.) (ITC notices, dated 01/05/04, available at http://www.usitc.gov/332s/shortsup/332_450_010nl.pdf and http://www.usitc.gov/332s/shortsup/332_450_011nl.pdf)