CBP posted the following documents for the March 5 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting:
Imported goods subject to heading 9903 tariff subheadings, including goods from China, may qualify for informal entry only if the goods are valued at $250 or less, CBP indicated in answers to questions posed by the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America at a recent meeting.
California-based Background Alert must shut down through 2028, or face a $50,000 fine for failing to register as a data broker and pay an annual fee, according to terms of a settlement with the California Privacy Protection Agency. CPPA, which announced the agreement Thursday, raised privacy concerns with the people-search company’s business model in its Wednesday order approving the settlement.
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America supports the National Marine Fisheries Service's efforts to automate entry processing for seafood imports, although the trade association also said NMFS needs to address some outstanding issues stemming from that agency's efforts to create a streamlined process that can parse out restricted shipments from non-restricted shipments, according to a Feb. 18 comment submitted to NMFS.
President Donald Trump's plan to remove the de minimis exemption from goods made in China and Hong Kong may just be the start of a bigger push to remove that exemption from other countries, according to trade experts speaking during a Feb. 13 webinar sponsored by ShipHero, a warehouse management system provider for e-commerce and third-party logistics firms.
In a Feb. 14 email alert to members, the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America warned that CBP has accepted some entries made by members even though those entries don't have proper duty calculations or new import duties on China that were mandated under President Donald Trump's executive order last week.
The SEC will provide exemptions to the requirement that certain personally identifiable information be reported to the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), the commission announced Monday.
Long-anticipated bills by Vermont state Rep. Monique Priestly (D) on comprehensive data privacy (H-208), an age-appropriate design code (H-210) and data broker deletion requirements (H-211) formally entered the legislature on Wednesday. The 2025 privacy bill “contains a number of adjustments that address concerns from stakeholders, including members of the business community, while maintaining the core consumer protections expected by Vermonters,” said an H-208 summary.
CBP's Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee will be holding its quarterly meeting on March 5 in Atlanta, according to a Federal Register notice.
Importers appear to be clamoring for more clarity over how CBP could potentially process imports of steel and aluminum derivatives in response to President Donald Trump’s executive orders earlier this week calling for 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum (see 2502110004).