The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.). Updates are listed under "What's New" on its Web site:
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ)/tariff preference level (TPL) commodity report as of February 26, 2007. 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) 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 02/26/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
CBP has posted to its Web site a notice announcing a "weekly" special import quota of 21,253,330 kg for upland cotton purchased not later than May 29, 2007 and entered under HTS 9903.52.35. The quota period is March 1, 2007 through August 27, 2007; the opening date is March 1, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an updated version of its instructions for carriers who elect to use Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) e-Manifest to transmit in-bond movements to CBP.
CBP has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that recent changes to the 2007 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) records, Harmonized System (HS) Update (No. 0704) include the following:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site 16 presentations that will be presented during the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Exchange III conference that is to be held on February 26-28, 2007 in Dearborn, Michigan.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice announcing that the third group of land border ports to become mandatory for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) electronic manifest: Truck (e-Manifest: Truck1) for advance cargo information purposes will be those in Michigan and New York effective May 24, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a notice which announces the phased enforcement of mandatory Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) electronic manifest: Truck (e-Manifest: Truck) for advance cargo information purposes at all land border ports in California, New Mexico, and Texas beginning April 19, 2007.
CBP has posted to its Web site the following:
The Journal of Commerce reports that at the recent Customs and Border Protection's 7th Annual Trade Symposium, Brad Shorser, Director of Trade Compliance at Sears and a member of COAC, stated that trade security aside, the Secure Freight Initiative (SF), ACE ,and C-TPAT are in essence, representative of a new age in Customs and trade facilitation. (JoC, 01/22/07, www.joc.com )