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Documents Found 29

  • Implementation of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act

    by the Customs Service on 03/25/2003.

    This document sets forth interim amendments to the Customs Regulations to implement the trade benefit provisions for Andean countries contained in Title XXXI of the Trade Act of 2002. The trade benefits under Title XXXI, also referred to as the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (the ATPDEA), apply to Andean countries specifically...

  • Patent Surveys

    by the Customs Service on 03/20/2003.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to eliminate patent surveys. After careful review, Customs questions the worthiness of continuing the patent survey program given lack of demand for the program, stemming in part from the program's apparent lack of effectiveness within the current statutory scheme, and other changed...

  • Tariff Treatment Related to Disassembly Operations Under the North American Free Trade Agreement

    by the Customs Service on 03/13/2003.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations concerning the North American Free Trade Agreement (the NAFTA). Specifically, the proposed rule would allow components which are recovered from the disassembly of used goods in a NAFTA country to be entitled to NAFTA originating status when imported into the United States, provided that:...

  • Performance of Customs Business by Parent and Subsidiary Corporations

    by the Customs Service on 10/15/2002.

    This document sets forth proposed amendments to Part 111 of the Customs Regulations to specify that corporate compliance activity engaged in for the purpose of exercising ``reasonable care'' under 19 U.S.C. 1484 is not customs business and, therefore, such activity is not subject to the customs broker licensing requirements of 19 U.S.C. 1641....

  • Reimbursable Customs Services: Increase in Hourly Percentage Rate of Charge

    by the Customs Service on 10/09/2002.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to increase the hourly percentage rate of charge for reimbursable Customs services. In a previous document published in the Federal Register on February 1, 2001, Customs had proposed increasing the rate of charge to 158 percent of the hourly rate of regular pay of the employee performing...

  • Consolidation of Customs Drawback Centers

    by the Customs Service on 08/21/2002.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to reflect a planned closure of the Customs Drawback Centers located at the ports of Boston, Massachusetts; Miami, Florida; and New Orleans, Louisiana. Because of a sustained decrease in the number of drawback claims and the amount of drawback payments, Customs is proposing a consolidation...

  • Entry of Certain Steel Products

    by the Customs Service on 08/09/2002.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to set forth special requirements for the entry of certain steel products. The steel products in question are those listed by the President in Proclamation 7529 of March 5, 2002, pursuant to the safeguard provisions of section 203 of the Trade Act of 1974, including those products subject...

  • Presentation of Vessel Cargo Declaration to Customs Before Cargo is Laden Aboard Vessel at Foreign Port for Transport to the United States

    by the Customs Service on 08/08/2002.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to require the advance and accurate presentation of manifest information prior to lading at the foreign port and to encourage the electronic presentation of such information in advance. The document also proposes to allow a non-vessel operating common carrier (NVOCC) having an International...

  • Conditional Release Period and Customs Bond Obligations for Food, Drugs, Devices, and Cosmetics

    by the Customs Service on 06/07/2002.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to clarify the responsibilities of importers of food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics under Customs entry bond and to provide a reasonable period of time to allow the Food and Drug Administration to perform its enforcement functions with respect to these articles. The proposed amendments...

  • Single Entry for Unassembled or Disassembled Entities Imported on Multiple Conveyances

    by the Customs Service on 04/08/2002.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to allow an importer of record, under certain conditions, to submit a single entry to cover multiple portions of a single entity which, due to its size or nature, arrives in the United States on separate conveyances. The proposed amendments would implement statutory changes made to the...

  • User Fees

    by the Customs Service on 03/18/2002.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to reflect various legislative amendments to 19 U.S.C. 58c, the Customs user fee statute, including those made by the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 1999 and the Tariff Suspension and Trade Act of 2000. The proposed regulations set forth the new fee structure for...

  • Prototypes Used Solely for Product Development, Testing, Evaluation, or Quality Control Purposes

    by the Customs Service on 03/08/2002.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations in order to establish rules and procedures under the Product Development and Testing Act of 2000 (PDTA). The purpose of the PDTA is to promote product development and testing in the United States by allowing the duty-free entry of articles, commonly referred to as prototypes, that are to be...

  • Re-Use of Air Waybill Number on Air Cargo Manifest

    by the Customs Service on 03/01/2002.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations pertaining to air commerce to provide that once an air waybill number is used on an air cargo manifest, one year must elapse before the same air waybill number may be used on another air cargo manifest. Current regulations prohibit the re-use of an air waybill number for three years after...

  • Procedures Governing the Border Release Advanced Screening and Selectivity (BRASS) Program

    by the Customs Service on 02/01/2002.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to provide for the Border Release Advanced Screening and Selectivity (BRASS) Program, an improved automated and electronic system that will replace the Line Release method of processing certain repetitive and high volume shipments of merchandise into the U.S. Like the present Line Release...

  • Single Entry for Split Shipments

    by the Customs Service on 11/16/2001.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to allow an importer of record, under certain conditions, to submit a single entry to cover multiple portions of a single shipment which was split by the carrier, and arrives in the United States separately. The proposed amendments would implement statutory changes made to the merchandise...

  • Dog and Cat Protection Act

    by the Customs Service on 08/10/2001.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to implement certain provisions of the Dog and Cat Protection Act of 2000. The Dog and Cat Protection Act of 2000 prohibits the importation of any products containing dog or cat fur, and provides for civil and criminal penalties for violations of the Act. This document proposes to set forth...

  • Private Aircraft Programs: Establishment of the General Aviation Telephonic Entry (GATE) Program and Revisions to the Overflight Program

    by the Customs Service on 08/03/2001.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations to provide for the GATE Program--a voluntary program designed to facilitate Customs processing of certain pre-qualified frequent travelers on pre-registered general aviation aircraft arriving in the United States directly from Canada. This document also discusses Customs evaluation of the...

  • Administrative Rulings

    by the Customs Service on 07/17/2001.

    This document sets forth proposed amendments to those provisions of the Customs Regulations that concern the issuance of administrative rulings and related written determinations and decisions on prospective and current transactions arising under the Customs and related laws. The proposed regulatory changes include amendments to Customs...

  • Distribution of Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset to Affected Domestic Producers

    by the Customs Service on 06/26/2001.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations, to implement the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000, by prescribing the administrative procedures, including the time and manner, under which antidumping and countervailing duties assessed on imported products would be distributed to affected domestic producers as an offset...

  • User and Navigation Fees; Other Reimbursement Charges

    by the Customs Service on 05/01/2001.

    This document proposes to amend the Customs Regulations regarding the proper assessment of user and navigation fees, as well as other reimbursement charges for Customs services performed in connection with, among other things, the processing of vehicles, vessels, aircraft and merchandise arriving in the United States. It is believed that the...