During the September 2011 annual National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America’s Government Affairs Conference, a Food and Drug Administration official gave updates on a number of import provisions in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), two of which he said would be delayed.
On September 20, 2011, Senator McCaskill (D-MO) introduced S. 15811, a bill to address unfair trade practices such as duty evasion. The bill would create “know your customer” rules for customs brokers, implement improvements to the importer of record database, and permanently eliminate the AD “bonding-in-lieu” provision for new shippers.
At the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America’s Government Affairs Conference on September 19, 2011, representatives from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and NCBFAA’s Customs Committee discussed the “Role of the Broker,” including the possibility of requiring continuing education for all licensed customs brokers and an experience requirement for permit holders. A larger role for brokers in trusted trade programs is also being contemplated, etc.
In CSMS #11-000217, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reminds that trade that effective September 22, 2011, the use of ABI to file Post Summary Corrections for ACE entry summaries types 01 and 03 will be mandatory. The paper Post Entry Amendments (PEAs) will no longer be allowed for such entry summaries filed in ACE.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has posted a “filled-out” sample of its August 2011 PPQ 505 Form (Lacey Act Declaration) for imported plants and plant products. The sample involves certain solid wood chairs.
The Trade Support Network1 will be meeting on September 22-23, 2011 to continue discussions on the development of the Automated Commercial Environment. One of the many topics that will be covered is the priority ACE entry summary edits needed by the trade, and CBP’s new “filter” concept for meeting this need.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced that an electronic waste recycling company, Executive Recycling Inc., its chief executive officer, and its former vice president of operations were indicted on charges in connection to the failure to file a notification to export hazardous waste; exportation contrary to law; and destruction, alteration, or falsification of records.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000216 stating that the introduction of ACE M1 will require all brokers participating in Rail Line Release to have Entry Banks created in ACE. The ACE Entry Bank numbers must be unique and cannot overlap with the ACS Entry Bank numbers. All Entry Banks must be created in the ACE Portal no later than Friday, 9/23/11.For more information on how to create and maintain Entry Banks in the ACE Portal, please refer to the User Guide distributed in CSMS #11-000208.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing that the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (COAC) will meet on October 4, 2011 in El Paso, TX from 1 pm to 6 pm.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a document on in-bond authorization for rail and sea carriers in ACE since the deployment of ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1). The document provides instructions on how to create and maintain a carrier in-bond authorization, grant additional port access to an existing authorized partner, edit date parameters for authorized partners, remove ports from an authorized partner, and remove authorized partners from an account in ACE.