CBP has a number of Informed Compliance Publications (ICPs) in the "What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: ..." series. As of the date of this posting, the subjects listed are available for reading or downloading. The first date shown is the original publication date. The subsequent dates, if any, show the revisions.
Additionally, CBP publishes several Directives and Handbooks, which provide guidance to the public on a variety of trade-related matters.
Available ICP downloads:
- African Growth and Opportunity Act AGOA
- Agricultural Actual Use Provisions
- Bona Fide Sales & Sales for Exportation to the United States
- Buying & Selling Commissions
- CBP Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
- Classification of Sets
- Customs Administrative Enforcement Process: Fines, Penalties, Forfeitures and Liquidated Damages
- Customs Brokers
- Customs Value
- Customs Valuation Encyclopedia (1980 - 2021)
- Drawback
- Determining the Acceptability of Transaction Value for Related Party Transactions
- Entry
- Foreign Assembly of U.S. Components
- Importation of Commercial Samples
- Instruments of International Traffic
- Jones Act
- Marking of Country of Origin on U.S. Imports
- Mitigation Guidelines: Fines, Penalties, Forfeitures and Liquidated Damages
- NAFTA Country of Origin Rules for Monumental & Building Stone
- Passenger Vessel Services Act
- Prior Disclosure
- Proper Deductions for Freight & Other Costs
- Reasonable Care
- Recordkeeping
- Rules of Origin
- Tariff Classification
- U.S. Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection Rulings Program
- Button, Snap Fasteners, Slide Fasteners and Similar Articles
- Classification: Apparel Terminology under the HTSUS
- Classification of Children's Apparel
- Classification of Coated and Water Resistant Apparel
- Classification of Hats and Other Headgear under HTSUS Heading 6505
- Classification of Knit to Shape Apparel Garments under HTSUS Heading 6110
- Classification of Ribbons & Trimmings
- Classification of Textile Costumes
- Classification and Quota Status of Raw Cotton
- Country of Origin of Knit to Shape Apparel Products
- Fiber Trade Names & Generic Terms
- Fibers & Yarns Construction and Classification Under the HTSUS
- Footwear
- Gloves, Mittens & Mitts, Not Knitted or Crocheted, Under the HTSUS
- Marking Requirements for Wearing Apparel
- NAFTA for Textiles & Textile Articles
- Textile & Apparel Rules of Origin
- Base Metal Mountings and Fittings
- Basic Forms of Non-Ferrous Metals
- Hand Tool Sets Classified Within Subheadings 8205.90.00 and 8206.00.00
- Locks of Base Metal
- Coated Non-alloy Flat-Rolled Steel
- Stranded Wire, Rope and Cable of Iron or Steel
- Tractors of Heading 8701 vs. Heavy Industrial Machinery of Headings 8429 and 8430
- Waste & Scrap as it Relates to Base Metals of Chapter 81
- Articles of Wax, Artificial Stone and Jewelry
- Base Metal Mountings and Fittings
- Beauty and Skin Care Products of Heading 3304
- Classification and Marking of Watches and Clocks
- Classification of Cooking Ranges, Stoves and Ovens
- Colored Bubble Glass (and Other Special Types of Glassware)
- Cutlery of Headings 8211 Through 8215 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
- Decals, Decorative Stickers and Window Clings
- Decorative Glassware
- Eyewear Frames and Eyewear
- Fasteners of Heading 7318
- Locks of Base Metal
- New Decisions on Candle Holders v. Decorative Glass Articles
- Table and Kitchen Glassware
- Tableware, Kitchenware, Other Household Articles and toilet Articles of Plastics
- Works of Art, Collector's Pieces, Antiques, and Other Cultural Property
- Agglomerated Stone
- Agricultural Actual Use Provisions
- Articles of Wax, Artificial Stone and Jewelry
- Button, Snap Fasteners, Slide Fasteners and Similar Articles
- Classification and Marking of Pipe Fittings under Heading 7307
- Decals, Decorative Stickers and Window Clings
- Fasteners of Heading 7318
- Gaskets
- Granite
- NAFTA Eligibility and Building Stone
