Treasury Dept. Regulatory Agenda Again Mentions Rule on Info Disclosure for Abandoned Goods
The Treasury Department published its fall 2022 regulatory agenda for CBP. The only new mention of any regulations is a return to the agenda for a final rule that would "create a procedure for the disclosure of information otherwise protected by the Trade Secrets Act to a trademark owner when merchandise bearing suspected counterfeit trademarks has been voluntarily abandoned." CBP issued the underlying proposal in 2019 (see 1908260040), and the final rule had been on Treasury's regulatory agenda for 2020 and spring of 2021 before moving to the long-term actions category in the most recent agenda.
The agenda lists Treasury's CBP rulemakings that are pending at the proposed, interim final, final and completed stages, as well as rulemakings that are long-term actions. The agenda lists the regulation title; past regulation(s), if any; the time frame for the next regulatory action(s), if any; a brief description of the regulation; and a contact party name and telephone number.
Agenda Highlights
Highlights of Treasury's CBP rulemakings are below. New items are marked with an asterisk (*).
| Proposed Rule Stage |
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| Dog and Cat Protection Act |
| International Travel Merchandise |
| Inter Partes Proceedings Concerning Administration of Exclusion Orders Resulting From Final Determinations of the United States International Trade Commission Under Section 337 |
| Updates to (a)(1)(A) List |
| Merchandise Produced by Convict or Forced Labor or Indentured Labor Under Penal Sanctions |
| Elimination of Paper-Based Bond Applications and the Automated Processing of Bond Applications |
| Final Rule Stage |
| Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Required for Electronic Entry/Entry Summary (Cargo Release and Related Entry) Filings |
| Enforce and Protect Act Regulations |
| Importations of Pesticides and Pesticidal Devices |
| Enforcement of Copyrights and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act |
| *Disclosure of Information Regarding Abandoned Merchandise |
| Refund of Alcohol Excise Tax |
| Removal of References to Customs Broker District Permit Fee |
| Goods Returned to the United States |
| Fee for Inbound Express Mail (Inbound EMS) Items |
| Amendment to Statement Processing and Automated Clearinghouse (ACH) |
| Non-Preferential Origin Determinations for Merchandise Imported From Canada or Mexico for Implementation of the Agreement Between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada |
| Agreement Between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada (USMCA) Implementing Regulations Related to Textile and Apparel Goods, Automotive Goods, and Other USMCA Provisions |
| Imposition of Import Restrictions on Categories of Archaeological and Ethnological Material of Tunisia |