In October 2010, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a proposed rule that would amend 19 CFR 111.24 to allow customs brokers to disclose certain information regarding client (importer) records under certain conditions. Comments on the proposed rule are due by December 27, 2010.
CBP has posted the U.S. Border Patrol Weekly Blotter for November 18-24, 2010. The Blotter provides information on Border Patrol activities during the specified week.
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.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing that the 2011 tariff rate quota on mandarin oranges (satsumas) in airtight containers will open on January 3, 2011 with a low-duty quantity of 40,000,000 kg.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing that the 2011 tariff rate quota on blue-mold cheese provided for in HTS Chapter 4, Additional U.S. Note 17 will open on January 3, 2011. The below listed countries have the following low-duty access amounts:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing that the 2011 tariff rate quota on other brooms, wholly or in part of broom corn, will open on January 3, 2011 with a low-duty quantity of 121,478 dozen (since the reporting unit for brooms is numbers, the actual quota limit is 1,457,736 numbers).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing that the 2011 tariff rate quota on whiskbrooms, wholly or in part of broom corn, will open on January 3, 2011 with a low-duty quantity of 61,655 dozen (since the reporting unit for brooms is numbers, the actual quota limit is 739,860 numbers).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued notices stating that it has accredited and approved the following companies as a commercial gauger and/or laboratory for petroleum and petroleum products, organic chemicals and vegetable oils, and to test petroleum and petroleum products for customs purposes, in accordance with 19 CFR 151.12 and 151.13, on the effective dates listed (see individual notice for dates of next triennial inspections):
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a memorandum announcing that the 2011 tariff rate qutoa on dried milk, dried cream, and dried whey provided for in HTS Chapter 4, Additional U.S. Note 12 will open on January 3, 2011.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing that the 2011 tariff rate quota for butter substitutes provided for in HTS Chapter 4, Additional U.S. Note 14 will open on January 3, 2011 with a low-duty quantity of 6,080,500 kg.