CBP has issued a memo on the decrease of the 2009 DR-CAFTA tariff preference level for certain non-originating Nicaragua apparel. (See ITT's Online Archives or 06/26/09 news, 09062620, for previous BP summary of the decrease.) (QBT-09-532, dated 07/02/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2009/qbt_09_532.ctt/qbt_09_532.pdf)
CBP has posted the following ACE documents:
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) and tariff preference level (TPL) commodity report as of July 13, 2009. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (Weekly commodity report available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/cr07132009.ctt/cr07132009.pdf)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ESAR A2.2 (ACE Initial Entry Types) Frequently Asked Questions document which covers ACE portal topics.
On July 9, 2009, the Senate passed its own version of H.R. 2892, the fiscal year (FY) 2010 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that ABI air in-bond functionality (application identifier QX/WX) will be available for testing in the Automated Commercial System on July 13, 2009. Another CSMS message will be issued when the functionality is available in ACS Production.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that the Customs Automated Forms Entry System (CAFES) application will be retired from the CBP automated operations environment when ACE M1 (e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail), goes into production during fiscal year 2010.
CBP has posted an updated version of its "ACE on the Road" event schedule, which includes the following event:
On June 24, 2009, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2892, the fiscal year (FY) 2010 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, etc.
CBP has issued a CSMS message announcing recent changes to the 2009 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HS Update No. 0902). This update contains 25,777 ABI records and 4,334 harmonized records. Changes include the following: