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Unverified List updates reflect BIS efforts to assess the legitimacy of foreign recipients of controlled items when end-use checks cannot be completed. Changes to the list signal heightened attention to diversion risks across global supply chains. This section follows new UVL designations, removals and related policy developments that affect screening and due diligence requirements. Coverage helps exporters adapt compliance processes to evolving verification challenges.

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CBP Weekly TRQ/TPL Commodity Graph Report and Threshold To Fill List as of June 27
June 28, 2016 |Customs

CBP issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of June 27. This report (here) includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, and tobacco; and certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying textile articles and/or other articles; the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc.

Electronics Groups Stop Gray Market 'Known Importer' COAC Recommendation
June 28, 2016 |Customs

The Electronic Components Industry Association and other trade groups stopped an industry recommendation from going forward for a CBP pilot program that would test a new approach to gray market imports, the ECIA said in a June 26 news release. The ECIA, the Semiconductor Industry Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spoke against the recommendation during a recent Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) Intellectual Property Rights Working Group session, the ECIA said. Gray market products are imported goods that were intended for sale outside the U.S. The proposed "Known Importer Program" for gray market products "would have established a known importer status for unauthorized sellers to bypass detention and inspection of shipments at the borders," the ECIA said. "The proposal called for trade associations to administer the program by designating which of its members met the program’s criteria for a known importer. The proposal, if it had been adopted, would have set up a pilot program to test the concept for importers of electronic components." The COAC is made up of industry members that make recommendations to CBP, which ultimately decides whether a COAC-endorsed initiative will be taken up. CBP and a co-chair of the COAC Trade Enforcement and Revenue Collection Subcommittee, which the IPR Working Group is part of, didn't immediately comment. "This proposal would have seriously impaired the integrity of the authorized distribution channel for electronic components," said Robin Gray, ECIA general counsel. "Our zealous opposition to the proposal was clearly a determining factor in the [IPR working group's] decision not to recommend the program."

CBP Withdraws Proposed Ruling Revocation on Wine Bottle Bags
June 27, 2016 |Customs

In the June 22 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 50, No. 25) (here), CBP withdrew a previously proposed ruling revocation on wine bottle bags (see 13070909). While no comments were submitted, "we have determined that the classification of the subject merchandise of that ruling was correct and the ruling will not be revoked," CBP said. The agency said the classification for the wine bottle bag in subheading 4202.92.30, as “travel, sports and similar bags, with outer surface of textile materials, other, of man-made fibers, other,” is correct, CBP said.

CBP Issues Harmonized System Update With 5,677 ABI Records, 1,404 Harmonized Tariff Records
June 27, 2016 |Customs

CBP said it created Harmonized System Update (HSU) 1606 on June 24, containing 5,677 ABI records and 1,404 harmonized tariff records. Modifications include the removal of the Federal Communications Commission agency indicators from various HTS records, effective July 1, CBP said in a CSMS message (here). Changes also included those mandated by the updated Information Technology Agreement, CBP said. The modified records can be retrieved electronically via the procedures indicated in the CATAIR. Further information: Jennifer Keeling, Jennifer.Keeling@dhs.gov