CEDIA Expo producer Emerald Holding reported a 73% year-on-year plunge in Q4 revenue, to $12.2 million, and a 65% falloff, to $127.4 million, for pandemic-plagued 2020. Declines were partially offset by claim payments received under the company’s event cancellation insurance policy, said the company Thursday.
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) for CBP will next meet remotely on March 17, CBP said in a notice. Comments are due in writing by March 16.
CBP is allowing for a remote proctored exam option for the April 21 customs broker exam, the agency said Feb. 17. Exam registration will open Feb. 22 and close March 22. “Remote proctoring means a person (the proctor) will observe the examinee via the computer camera throughout the exam, from sign-in through completion,” it said. CBP will require that a system test be passed and that the private location meet other requirements to qualify for the remote test option, it said.
For weeks, dozens of container ships have dotted the waters of California's San Pedro Bay, waiting to unload at a port experiencing its highest level of congestion in years. With no space to drop their cargo, the ships sit in limbo, further slowing imports and exports and clogging a global trading system that some shippers view as broken.
FDA recently launched the second phase of its Artificial Intelligence Imported Seafood Pilot program, and will over the next six months apply machine learning technologies in the field as part of its screening processes for seafood imports, the agency said in a constituent update Feb. 8. FDA says it does not anticipate disruptions to importers from the pilot, which began Feb. 1 and is set to run through July 31.
For weeks, dozens of container ships have dotted the waters of California's San Pedro Bay, waiting to unload at a port experiencing its highest level of congestion in years. With no space to drop their cargo, the ships sit in limbo, further slowing imports and exports and clogging a global trading system that some shippers view as broken.
CBP will focus on getting through a backlog of Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism revalidations that it had been originally scheduled to perform in 2020 as it lays out its work plan for validations in 2021, said Manual Garza, CTPAT director at CBP’s Office of Field Operations, on a call with members of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America on Feb. 3.
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America issued several tips for industry dealing with unfair detention and demurrage fees. In a Feb. 1 email to industry, the group said shippers and traders should try to work out a “satisfactory arrangement” with the billing party and should reference the Federal Maritime Commission’s guidance on fees (see 2009140045 and 2011170041). If a “reasonable solution” can’t be reached, the NCBFAA recommends reaching out to FMC’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Dispute Resolution Services and sending a report to the FMC, which is reviewing the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on ocean transportation (see 2012180038 and 2011200024). The group also recommends bringing a formal case before the FMC if fees climb higher than six figures.
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America issued several tips for industry dealing with unfair detention and demurrage fees. In a Feb. 1 email to industry, the group said shippers and traders should try to work out a “satisfactory arrangement” with the billing party and should reference the Federal Maritime Commission’s guidance on fees (see 2009140045 and 2011170041). If a “reasonable solution” can’t be reached, the NCBFAA recommends reaching out to FMC’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Dispute Resolution Services and sending a report to the FMC, which is reviewing the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on ocean transportation (see 2012180038 and 2011200024). The group also recommends bringing a formal case before the FMC if fees climb higher than six figures.
Exports to Hong Kong remain eligible for post-departure filings in the Automated Export System despite recent changes to Hong Kong’s export control status, the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America said in a Jan. 25 email to industry. NCBFAA said it confirmed with the Census Bureau that the agency will permit the filings, which are available for certain exporters that joined the post-departure filing program before it was closed to new participants. Census recently issued guidance clarifying its reporting requirements for exports to Hong Kong (see 2012300040), despite a December Bureau of Industry and Security rule that removed Hong Kong as a separate destination under the Export Administration Regulations (see 2012220053). A Census spokesperson confirmed that Hong Kong exports will remain eligible for post-departure filings.