Informed Compliance Publications

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
• Agglomerated Stone
• Agricultural Actual Use Provisions
• Articles of Wax, Artificial Stone and Jewelry
• Ball Bearings
• Base Metal Mountings and Fittings
• Basic Forms of Non-Ferrous Metals
• Beauty and Skin Care Products of Heading 3304
• Bona Fide Sales & Sales for Exportation to the United States
• Button, Snap Fasteners, Slide Fasteners and Similar Articles
• Buying & Selling Commissions
• Cane and Beet Sugar (Quota, Classification & Entry)
• Caviar
• CBP Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
• Classification: Apparel Terminology under the HTSUS
• Classification and Entry Requirements of Alcoholic Beverages and Spirits
• Classification of Children's Apparel
• Classification of Coated and Water Resistant Apparel
• Classification and Quota Status of Raw Cotton
• Classification of Cooking Ranges, Stoves and Ovens
• Classification of Hats and Other Headgear under HTSUS Heading 6505
• Classification of Knit to Shape Apparel Garments under HTSUS Heading 6110
• Classification of Molds and Their Parts
• Classification and Marking of Pipe Fittings under Heading 7307
• Classification of Ribbons & Trimmings
• Classification of Sets
• Classification of Textile Costumes
• Classification of Tires
• Classification and Marking of Watches and Clocks
• Coated Non-alloy Flat-Rolled Steel
• Coffee
• Colored Bubble Glass (and Other Special Types of Glassware)
• Country of Origin of Knit to Shape Apparel Products
• Customs Administrative Enforcement Process: Fines, Penalties, Forfeitures and Liquidated Damages
• Customs Brokers
• Customs Value
• Customs Valuation Encyclopedia (1980 - 2015)
• Cutlery of Headings 8211 Through 8215 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
• Decals, Decorative Stickers and Window Clings
• Decorative Glassware
• Determining the Acceptability of Transaction Value for Related Party Transactions
• Diodes, Transistors & Similar Semiconductor Devices
• Distinguishing Bolts from Screws
• Drawback
• Entry
• Eyewear Frames and Eyewear
• Fasteners of Heading 7318
• Fiber Trade Names & Generic Terms
• Fibers & Yarns Construction and Classification Under the HTSUS
• Footwear
• Foreign Assembly of U.S. Components
• Gaskets
• Gloves, Mittens & Mitts, Not Knitted or Crocheted, Under the HTSUS
• Granite
• Hand Tool Sets Classified Within Subheadings 8205.90.00 and 8206.00.00
• Household Articles of Base Metal
• Importation of Commercial Samples
• Instruments of International Traffic
• Internal Combustion Piston Engines
• Jones Act
• Locks of Base Metal
• Machine Tools
• Marking of Country of Origin on U.S. Imports
• Marking Requirements for Wearing Apparel
• Mitigation Guidelines: Fines, Penalties, Forfeitures and Liquidated Damages
• Mushrooms
• New Decisions on Candle Holders v. Decorative Glass Articles
• NAFTA Country of Origin Rules for Monumental & Building Stone
• NAFTA Eligibility and Building Stone
• NAFTA for Textiles & Textile Articles
• Passenger Vessel Services Act
• Peanuts and their Classification under the HTSUS
• Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and Electronic Organizers
• Prior Disclosure
• Proper Deductions for Freight & Other Costs
• Reasonable Care
• Recordkeeping
• Rules of Origin
• Soldering and Welding Machines and Apparatus
• Stranded Wire, Rope and Cable of Iron or Steel
• Table and Kitchen Glassware
• Tableware, Kitchenware, Other Household Articles and toilet Articles of Plastics
• Tariff Classification
• Textile & Apparel Rules of Origin
• Tractors of Heading 8701 vs. Heavy Industrial Machinery of Headings 8429 and 8430
• Turbojets, Turbopropellers and Other Gas Turbines, and Parts Thereof of Heading 8411
• U.S. Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection Rulings Program
• Vehicles, Parts and Accessories
• Vending Machines and Parts Thereof
• Wadding, Gauze, Bandages and Similar Articles of Heading 3005
• Waste & Scrap as it Relates to Base Metals of Chapter 81
• Works of Art, Collector's Pieces, Antiques, and Other Cultural Property