CBP Administrative Messages, Web Postings, Etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) commodity report as of August 28, 2006. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain BFTA, CAFTA-DR, JFTA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, CAFTA-DR, CBTPA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (Chile FTA) tariff preference levels (TPLs) and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 08/28/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
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1. Weekly TRQ/TPL Commodity Report as of August 28, 2006
2. Various Postings to CBP's Web Site
CBP has posted various notices to its Web site as follows:
AES letter of intent form information and example posted. CBP has posted to its Web site information on and an example of the Letter of Intent (LOI) form that is required to participate in the Automated Export System (AES). (CBP posting, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/export/aes/letter_intent/form_commodity_data.xml.)
July 2006 ACE Modernization newsletter. CBP has posted to its Web site the July 2006 issue of its Modernization Monthly newsletter. This issue contains articles on CBP approaching the half-way point in deployment of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) for truck processing capabilities, ACE's periodic payment capability's second anniversary, and information on the ACE Exchange and the two land border conferences that CBP recently held (July 2006 Modernization newsletter available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/ace/newsletters/2006/news_072006.ctt/news_072006.pdf.)
Carrier Information Guide on document requirements for travel to the U.S. CBP has posted to its Web site a document, entitled "Carrier Information Guide: Documentary Requirements for Travel to the United States," which is designed to serve as a reference aid for travel industry personnel regarding documentary requirements for travel to the U.S. (Carrier Information Guide, posted 07/28/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/travel/inspections_carriers_facilities/carrier_info/carrier_info_guide.ctt/carrier_info_guide.pdf.)
Know Before You Go: CBP regulations for U.S. residents. CBP has a new posting dating for its document entitled, "Know Before You Go: U.S. Customs and Border Protection Regulations for U.S. Residents," which contains, among other things, information on inspections, preparing for return to the U.S., documents needed to enter the U.S., what must be declared, types of exemptions, etc. (Know Before You Go, posted 07/17/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/publications/travel/knowbeforeyougo.ctt/knowbeforeyougo.pdf
CBP fact sheet on CBP laboratories and scientific services. CBP has posted to its Web site a fact sheet regarding its laboratories and scientific services, which, among other things, use cutting-edge instrumentation to provide forensic and scientific analysis in the areas of weapons of mass destruction, narcotics enforcement, trade enforcement, and intellectual property rights (CBP fact sheet, posted 08/16/06 available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/newsroom/fact_sheets/labs_scientific_services/fact_sheet_labs.ctt/fact_sheet_labs.pdf.)