U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a memorandum announcing that the 2011 tariff rate quota on milk (whole) and cream provided for in HTS Chapter 4, subheading 0401.20 will open on January 3, 2011 with a low-duty quantity of 11,356,236 liters.
CBP has posted a Trade Support Network Leadership network matrix, which lists all of the TSN Committees and subcommittees with the Trade and CBP/Gov Co-Chairs and the ACE Support Team (AST) Business Leads. The matrix also includes a list of the current TSN Trade Ambassadors.
CBP has posted a fact sheet on its Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center (CTAC), a facility established in 2009 that serves as a multi-agency fusion center for targeting commercial shipments that pose a threat to health and safety. Agencies participating in CTAC include CBP, CPSC, FDA, FSIS and APHIS.
CBP has posted a fact sheet on import safety, which was established as a Priority Trade Issue (PTI) in order to prevent unsafe products from entering the U.S. commerce. CBP notes that in FY 2010, 64% of its trade exams were done on behalf of other agencies.
This weekly summary report highlights the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels1 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” The report also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.”
An overview of a number of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, is provided below. (Note that the complete message is available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)
CBP has updated its Trade Outreach via Webinar document to include a December 7, 2010 webinar entitled "ACE Reports Webinar: The Benefits of the New Entry Summary Universe. Registration is available here.
CBP has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ESAR A2.2 programming issues.
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of November 30, 2010.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing that the 2011 tariff rate quota on animal feed containing milk or milk derivatives provided for in HTS Chapter 23, Additional U.S. Note 2 will open on January 3, 2011. The aggregate low-duty quantity is 7,399,700 kg and the below-listed countries have the following minimum access amounts: