During a recent webinar, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Revenue Division officials provided an update on the process and problems with bonds. An official announced that CBP is expected to soon publish a final version of a new CBP Form 301 (customs bond).
Opposition to AT&T’s buy of T-Mobile is continuing to build and the lines will be seen more clearly Wednesday during a hearing by the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, merger opponents said Tuesday during a media briefing. With three weeks to go before initial comments are due at the FCC, opponents launched a website, www.mergerthreat.com.
During a recent webinar, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Revenue Division officials provided an update on the process and problems with continuous bonds. CBP officials provided Revenue Division statistics on the volume the continuous bonds and other bond documents, rejection rates, and listed the top 10 rejection reasons.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
Broker Power is providing readers with some of the top stories for May 2-6, 2011 in case they were missed last week.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources have informed Broker Power that the pass rate for the April 2011 customs broker license exam was 19%.
On April 5, 2011 a Justice Department official spoke at an NCBFAA conference1, and discussed how DOJ is interpreting the facilitation payments exception to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act's (FCPA) anti-bribery provisions.
On May 5, 2011, officials from Customs and Border Protection1 and other agencies testified before a Senate Finance subcommittee2 on antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) fraud and duty evasion. CBP’s testimony included the actions it plans to take to stem the circumvention, while Senators criticized CBP’s efforts to date and announced plans to reintroduce legislation to strengthen AD/CV enforcement.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued an interim final rule, effective July 3, 2011, that will amend its regulations to require an additional element of information in a prior notice (PN) of imported food, as required by the Food Safety Modernization Act1. This change requires a person submitting PN of imported food, including food for animals, to report the name of any country to which the article has been refused entry.
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America, Inc. (NCBFAA) submitted a letter to the Food and Drug Administration on April 29, 2011 urging the agency not to place primary responsibility for the safety of imported food on third-parties such as customs brokers, as it implements the import provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).