U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing that the 2012 tariff rate quota on infant formula provided for in Chapter 19, Additional U.S. Note 2 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, will open on January 3, 2012 with a low-duty quantity of 100,000 kg.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its CF 1400 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Entrances) - an electronic query report for CF 1400 of the Vessel Management System (VMS), in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by entrances. CBP has also posted an updated CF 1401 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Clearances) - an electronic query report for CF 1401 of the VMS, in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by clearances.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the following news releases:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its Public Automated Commercial System FIRMS (Facilities Information and Resources Management Systems) report that is organized by port code and alphabetically by company name.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a memorandum announcing that the 2012 tariff rate quota on milk (whole) and cream provided for in Chapter 4, subheading 0401.20 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule will open on January 3, 2012 with a low-duty quantity of 11,356,236 liters.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that a new release of the C-TPAT Portal (Adjusted Scorecard Post Response) was to deploy on November 12, 2011. Key points include giving the trade credit for response actions, rewriting the validation response page to differentiate treatment of (i) actions required and (ii) recommendations for an adjusted score, and asking partners if they implemented a recommendation or not.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a summary of changes for the Automated Export System Trade Interface Requirements (AESTIR) that were effective on November 9, 2011. The following were added to Appendix O - DDTC ITAR Exemption Codes (available here):
In the November 2, 2011 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 45, No. 45), CBP published a notice on its revocation of one ruling and similar treatment regarding the tariff classification of a self-propelled utility vehicle.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the minutes of the October 4, 2011 Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection (COAC) meeting. At this meeting, CBP and COAC discussed topics including the role of the broker, simplified entry and summary, intellectual property rights enforcement, antidumping and countervailing duties, the global supply chain, etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the November 2011 Change Log for the Customs Automated Manifest Interface Requirements (CAMIR). On October 24, 2011, new Error Codes 490 through 530, except 506 and 516, were added to Appendix L: Truck Manifest Error Codes on pages 15 - 20. Appendix L is available here.