U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is hosting a Webinar on June 21 at 3 p.m. on updating the broker regulations (19 CFR Part 111), it said in a CSMS message June 18. The webinar will focus on broker "bona fides" and is the second of several webinars slated for the summer of 2012 as part of CBP's Role of the Broker Initiative.
June 19 Food and Drug Administration public meeting in Washington, D.C., on its plan to expand the technical, scientific, and regulatory capacity of countries that export food to the U.S. -- www.fda.gov/Food/NewsEvents/WorkshopsMeetingsConferences/default.htm
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
June 10-12 International Air Transport Association annual general meeting, Beijing, China -- http://www.iata.org/events/agm/2012/Pages/index.aspx
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will hold two Webinars for carriers and software developers who haven't started the transition from AMS to eManifest: Rail and Sea (M1). CBP will shut down AMS on Sept. 29, leaving M1 as the only electronic filing environment.
An update to U.S. Customs and Border Protection 19 CFR Parts 111 rules will take at least a year to be finalized, said Elena Ryan, Acting Director of Trade Facilitation and Administration at CBP. Ryan spoke June 7 during CBP’s first of several Webinars focused on the “Role of the Broker.” CBP is also in the "final stages" of putting together a Federal Register notice that will announce CBP's Importers Self-Assessment (ISA) pre-certification program, which will allow accredited brokers to assess their clients' readiness to participate in the ISA program. That notice should be out in the next few months, she said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a final rule to permit licensed customs brokers to store records relating to their customs transactions at any location within the U.S. under certain conditions, and to remove the requirement that certain brokers retain entry records in their original format for the 120-day period after release of imported merchandise. The rule ran in the Federal Register June 8.
The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices for June 6 (note that some may also be given separate headlines)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection official Daniel Baldwin sought to allay persistent concerns from the trade community on the coming transition to eManifest: Rail and Sea (M1), saying the immediate CBP focus will be implementation rather enforcement. Baldwin, CBP's Executive Director of Cargo and Conveyance Security, spoke at the American Association for Exporters and Importers convention June 5. Several industry executives voiced concerns, especially about the treatment of residue within M1.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is hosting a Webinar on June 7th at 3:00 PM on updating the broker regulations (19 CFR Part 111). This is the first of several webinars slated for the summer of 2012 as part of CBP's Role of the Broker Initiative. CBP is seeking comment and input on all facets of the broker regulations from the widest possible audience, it said. Especially important is feedback from small- and medium-sized enterprises, said CBP.