U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS Message #11-000272 stating that a one day "snow day" for October 27, 2011 is requested for a Los Angeles Broker due to computer server failure.
Enforcement of the provisions of the Basel Convention relating to “transboundary” movement of used electronics and e-waste faces several challenges, the Basel Convention said in a report. The Convention released a summary of the report on its E-Waste Africa Programme at a meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention in Cartagena, Columbia, that ended Friday. The full report will be released next month, it said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
Los Angeles Field Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued Public Bulletin No. LA11-017 to list the types of merchandise exams that CBP conducts at the ports, their basis and the factors affecting the time required to release a shipment. The Bulletin also provides instructions on how the trade can make written inquiry on the frequency of exams for both inbound (import) shipments and outbound (export) shipments, and the information CBP requires in such inquiries. The Bulletin notes that the information provided is specific to the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport.
The Coalition of New England Companies for Trade (CONECT) will be hosting its 10th Annual Northeast Cargo Symposium on November 3, 2011 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The Symposium will feature the following three panels of presentations:
Broker Power is providing readers with some of the top stories for October 17-21, 2011 in case they were missed last week.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum announcing that the first tranche for the fiscal year 2012 specialty sugar tariff rate quota (TRQ) that opened on October 12, 2011 oversubscribed at opening moment. The pro rata percentage is 29.46292% or 0.29462928.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing that Participating Government Agency (PGA) indicator programming has been added to ACS to enhance its ABI HTS Update and Query functionality. However, no tariff numbers have a PGA indicator yet (for those tariff numbers that call for one), so there will be no "VL" or "WL" records sent out to indicate that a tariff number has a PGA requirement.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has newly posted the recordings and presentation slides for two webinars, one on ACE Courtesy Notice of Liquidation (October 12, 2011) and the other on Practical Suggestions to Mitigate Cargo Security Risks (October 6, 2011). These webinars are part of a series of live trade outreach webinars that CBP is hosting. Each webinar is recorded and made available for subsequent on-demand viewing. Topics of previous webinars available for viewing include the role of the broker, account management restructuring, ACE Post Summary Corrections, simplified entry and financial processes, etc. Another announcement regarding the ACE Courtesy Notice Report was announced in CSMS #11-000265, available here.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that the 2012 annual user fee of $138 for each customs broker permit and national permit held by an individual, partnership, association, or corporation is due by January 20, 2012.