U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted amended recommendations of COAC’s Global Supply Chain Security Land Border Subcommittee. The amended recommendations largely ask CBP to obtain input from affected stakeholders.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that the following Customs broker licenses and all associated permits are cancelled without prejudice:
At the upcoming February 21, 2012 COAC meeting, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will provide an update on the progress it and NCBFAA have made in their Role of the Broker Workgroup1 plan to allow brokers to pre-certify Importer Self-Assessment (ISA) applicants. Updates are also expected on other planned regulatory changes to expand the role of the customs broker.
In June 2011, the Canada Border Services Agency announced the phased-in timeframe for increasing the number of lines requiring a 10-digit HS code at the time of interim accounting (PARS and RMD requests). CBSA has reposted that notice as effective February 1, a minimum of 20 HS codes have to be reported at the 10-digit level, up from a minimum of 10 HS codes which took effect on September 1, 2011.
In U.S. Customs and Border Protection's January 2012 Trade Account Owner (TAO) Update, CBP stated that the M1 pilot (e-Manifest: Rail and Sea) was currently underway, with the first Automated Broker Interface (ABI) filer to join the pilot during the week of January 30th. However, CBP sources now state the first ABI filer will join the pilot a week later, during the week of February 6, 2012.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (COAC) will meet on February 21, 2012 in Washington, D.C. Topics to be discussed at the meeting include Air Cargo Advance Screening, the one government at the border initiative, and IPR enforcement. There will be comment opportunities before and during the meeting. The registration deadline to attend or listen to the webcast of the meeting is February 17.
The Government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices for January 29-Feb 1, 2012 (note that some may also be given separate headlines):
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its January 2012 Trade Account Owner (TAO) Update. This update features information on planned ACE functionality for 2012, including e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1), Simplified Entry, the Document Image System (DIS), the Participating Government Agency (PGA) Message Set, and exports. This update also provides information on creating a split shipment via the ACE Portal, new ACE report issues and other updates, etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
FTC Commissioner Julie Brill urged online companies to implement “reasonable security safeguards,” better transparency, and “important privacy principles” or face FTC scrutiny. The warning came in a Thursday speech to the National Cybersecurity Alliance. An FTC spokeswoman told us separately that the commission plans to release its final privacy report “in the next few weeks.”