2021/11/08
Customs and Tariff Bureau (CTB) shares the materials used at Tariff Council meeting.
関税・外国為替等審議会 関税分科会 配付資料一覧(令和3年11月5日) : 財務省 (mof.go.jp)
CTB has to obtain the Council’s endorsement when it submits tariff revision bill to the parliament, thus the materials tell the CTB’s tariff revision intensions for 2022 fiscal year.
Papers demand patience to read out and the real intentions are discreetly placed at the most inconspicuous paragraph or at the very end of it with small letters.
kana20211105siryo3.pdf (mof.go.jp)
加糖調製品をめぐる動向等について
Material 3, as above, is arguing the temporary tariff on sugar and levy for imported sugar. The proposals are at the very end of the paper. However, the material itself is very informative to understand sugar and confectionary production, consumption, importation and exportation on past, present and future from the perspective of MAFF which is responsible for sugar matters and sets tariff and levy.
2021/11/05
Mandatory Food Inspection Order―Litchi chinensis from Vietnam
The authority alerted as above because it has identified, tricyclazole, a controlled substance by Food Sanitation Law, from the shipment coming from Vietnam. The authority has determined mandatory inspection against the inbound shipments of the item from Vietnem..
2021/11/04
Foreign Office announces the RCEP inception in two months
https://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/press4e_003051.html
2021/11/02
Japan’s Customs and Tariff Bureau (CTB) shares an Advance Ruling Information on Valuation.
事前教示回答（関税評価） : 税関 Japan Customs
Ruling’s date is June 17 2021.
In which, CTB clarifies the transaction value that is accepted by customs when there are multiple transactions to the goods concerned.
In this ARI, there are two transaction: 1st overseas seller and inland buyer. 2nd the inland buyer/seller and another inland buyer. 2nd transaction was concluded while the goods were stored in a customs controlled warehouse and before release known as “Hozei Tenbai”.
CTB tells the factors, such as the title, the rick and account and so on, which lead to this ruling in the reasoning and they are informative.
