CBP Administrative Messages, Web Postings, Etc.
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) commodity report as of April 10, 2006. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (CFTA) 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 04/10/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
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1. Weekly TRQ Commodity Report as of April 10, 2006
2. Various CBP Web Postings
ACE on the Road Event Schedule. CBP has posted an updated schedule of various April-September 2006 meetings, seminars, and conferences concerning a range of Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) events. (Updated schedule, dated 04/07/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/ace_on_the_road.xml.)
New/Modified ACE EDI messages for Release 4 Truck Manifest. CBP has posted the following new/modified ACE EDI messages for Release 4 Truck Manifest:
ANSI X.12 message sets:
Record of Changes in ANSI X.12 (dated 04/07/06)
Truck Manifest 309 Message (dated 04/07/06)
UN EDIFACT Message Sets for Standard Manifest:
Standard Truck Manifest CSUCAR Cargo Report Message (dated 04/07/06)
(New/modified ACE EDI messages for Release 4 Truck Manifest available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/carrier_info/ace_edi_drafts/edi_messages/.)
Passage of anti-counterfeiting law. Press release on the passage of anti-counterfeiting law which strengthens CBP's efforts to seize counterfeit goods. (See ITT's Online Archives or 03/21/06 news, 06032105, for BP summary of passage of law.) (Press release, dated 04/03/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/press_releases/04032006_5.xml.)
Visiting the U.S. A publication entitled "Visiting the United States," which contains CBP regulations for nonresidents. (Publication, dated 01/01/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/publications/travel/visitingtheunitedstates.ctt/visitingtheunitedstates.doc.)
CBP inspection process. A publication entitled "A look at the CBP Inspection Process" which describes the purpose of a Customs examination of an international traveler. (Publication, dated 02/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/publications/travel/whyexamc.ctt/whyexamc.doc.)
22 Smuggled Chinese arrested at Seattle seaport. Press release on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigation of a human smuggling scheme that resulted in the arrest of 22 Chinese nationals at the Seattle seaport on April 5, 2006. (Press release, dated 04/05/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/press_releases/04052006.xml.)