U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of January 3, 2006. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (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 01/03/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
D.C.-based independent telecom analyst firm Precursor is getting out of the research brokerage business after 6 years, CEO Scott Cleland confirmed Thurs. Cleland said Precursor, which has gotten high marks in Institutional Investor rankings as an independent analysis firm, is downsizing and will concentrate in the future on advising a smaller group of customers in targeted areas.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a memorandum providing instruction for the filing and acceptance of claims for preferential treatment of goods made under the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement (MFTA), which took effect on January 1, 2006.
CBP Issues Additional Instructions on Requirement for Origin-Conferring MID for Textiles and Apparel
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued additional instructions of a clarifying nature regarding its instructions on the requirement in new 19 CFR 102.23 for entries of textile and apparel products listed in 19 CFR 102.21(b)(5) to identity the origin-conferring manufacturer through a manufacturer identification code (MID).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site the December 2005 issue of its Modernization Monthly newsletter, which discusses, among other things, new Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) capabilities coming in 2006 and 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site notes from the Trade Support Network's (TSN's) Plenary Session that was held on September 26-29, 2005.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message on the erroneous generation of January Periodic Monthly Statements (PMS) one month early.
On December 13, 2005, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued an administrative message (Adm: 05-1423) announcing that the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) had identified approximately 6,000 standard alpha carrier codes (SCAC) that had not renewed their subscriptions with the NMFTA by the June 30 expiration date, nor in the past six months. CBP stated that on December 19, 2005, it would be updating the CBP carrier code file to remove any unrenewed codes. CBP noted that deletion of the unrenewed codes could impact Automated Manifest System (AMS) and Automated Broker Interface (ABI) processing.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) Office of Information and Technology has posted a notice to CBP's Web site containing a list, as of December 13, 2005, of companies/persons offering data processing services to the trade community for the Automated Broker Interface (ABI).
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has issued a notice announcing the establishment of agreed textile and apparel quota levels for 2006 pursuant to the November 8, 2005 U.S. - China Textile Agreement.