The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has issued a notice that modifies the 2004 - 2013 Harmonized Tariff Schedules (HTS) in order to correct errors in the staged duty rates for a small number of products that are originating goods of Chile under the U.S. - Chile Free Trade Agreement (UCFTA).
Harmonized Tariff Schedule
The Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) is a reference manual that provides duty rates for almost every item that exists. It is a system of classifying and taxing all goods imported into the United States. The HTS is based on the international Harmonized System, which is a global standard for naming and describing trade products, and consists of a hierarchical structure that assigns a specific code and rate to each type of merchandise for duty, quota, and statistical purposes. The HTS was made effective on January 1, 1989, replacing the former Tariff Schedules of the United States. It is maintained by the U.S. International Trade Commission, but the Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security is responsible for interpreting and enforcing the HTS.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site new "Trade Engagement Biweekly Reports" which summarize topics discussed during workshops held to develop the business requirements for Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Release 5.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of June 20, 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 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 06/20/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
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CBP has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that its most recent Harmonized System (HS) update (No. 0504) contains:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message stating that it has made a change for Northern Border direct arrival truck entries (mode of transportation - 30 and 31). CBP states that this change will allow CBP to make a district/port of entry change on an entry, in some cases.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has posted to its Web site its preliminary report for its investigation (No. 1205-6) on proposed modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS), which are scheduled to become effective in January 2007.
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has posted to its Web site its preliminary report for its investigation (No. 1205-6) on proposed modifications to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). According to the ITC, these proposed modifications are scheduled to become effective in January 2007.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated an antidumping (AD) duty investigation of superalloy degassed chromium from Japan.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has issued a notice that amends, effective February 9, 2005, the Harmonized Tariff Schedule in order to indicate that Mauritius is a lesser-developed African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) beneficiary country for the one-year period from October 1, 2004 through September 30, 2005.