U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has made available on its Web site an updated document on the U.S./Canada Free and Secure Trade (FAST) program.
The Commerce Department's Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) has issued its November 2003 Textiles and Apparel Import Report, which includes statistics on general imports (both quota and non-quota) of cotton, wool, man-made fiber, silk blend, and non-cotton vegetable fiber textiles and apparel.
Broker Power has listed the 2004 general (column 1) duty rates for certain knit and crocheted apparel that is subject to a silk blend (SB) and/or non-cotton vegetable fiber (NCVF) category number.
Broker Power has listed the 2004 general (column 1) duty rates for certain knit and crocheted apparel that is subject to a wool/fine animal hair (wool) category number. (The fiber that is in chief weight is the first fiber in the written description.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice on the Uruguay Round price-based "additional duty" (safeguard) provisions of HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter IV for certain agricultural products imported into the U.S. from all countries except Canada, Mexico, Jordan, Singapore, or Chile.
(a) For previously reviewed or investigated companies not listed above, the cash deposit rate will be the company-specific rate established for the most recent period.
The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has issued a final rule, effective January 15, 2004, which amends its regulations at 7 CFR 319 on the importation of logs, lumber, and other unmanufactured wood articles into the U.S. to allow wood chips derived from temperate species of Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus) from South America to be treated with a surface pesticide prior to importation as an alternative to the existing treatments.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has published a final rule which amends the Customs Regulations effective January 5, 2004 regarding the advance electronic presentation of information pertaining to cargo (sea, air, rail, or truck) prior to its being brought into, or sent from, the U.S.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a press release on its remand determination in response to a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Panel's decision regarding the final determination in the countervailing (CV) duty investigation on softwood lumber from Canada (C-122-839).
On January 14, 2004, the International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a news release on its preliminary negative antidumping (AD) injury determination stating that there is no reasonable indication that a U.S. industry is materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports of ready-to-cook kosher chicken and parts thereof from Canada.