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Recent Customs Quota Book Transmittals

01/16/2012

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Customs, CBP) publishes directives related to absolute and tariff-rate quotas for both textile and non-textile commodities on the agency's "Quota Book Transmittals (QBTs)" web page. Customs' "QBT" page provides notices of quota opening and closing dates, lists quota levels assigned for given products and quota periods and provides special instructions for the processing of quota entries and on other quota-related issues.

Recent QBT directives include the following:
QBT-11-590 -- 01/13/2012 - Special Import Quota Announcements for Upland Cotton
QBT 12-502 -- 01/09/2012 - Amended: 2012 Specialty Sugar Tranches
QBT-12-501 -- 01/05/2012 - Results of Tuna Opening
QBT-11-598 -- 12/30/2011 - 2012 Tariff Rate Quota on Ethyl Alcohol
QBT-11-584 -- 12/19/2011 - 2012 Apparel Restraint Limits Under Haiti HOPE II Act of 2008 as Amended by Haiti Economic Lift Program (HELP) Act of 2010
QBT-11-578 -- 12/15/2011 - 2012 Tuna TRQ Opening
QBT-11-574 -- 12/09/2011 - QBT-11-574: 2012 Beef Tariff Rate Quota Limits
QBT-11-570 -- 11/28/2011 - Import Quota Announcement for Upland Cotton
QBT-11-569 -- 11/18/2011 - Canada/North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – 2012 Limits for Tariff Preference Levels (TPL)
QBT-11-568 -- 11/18/2011 - Mexico/North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – 2012 Limits for Tariff Preference Levels (TPL)


Customs' 2012 QBTs can be accessed online at:
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2012/

Customs' "Quota Book Transmittals (QBTs)" web page, which contains archived QBTs, can be accessed online at:
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/


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