On April 8, 2010, U.S. Customs and Border Protection held a webinar that provided an update on Automated Commercial Environment and the International Trade Data System “Concept of Operations”.
During the annual conference of the National Association of Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America on April 12-14, 2010, Consumer Product Safety Commission officials briefed the trade on various issues, including the agency’s plans to start issuing its own import detention notices, better match its product codes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, etc.
Federal Maritime Commissioner Dye recently gave her individual views on issues of deregulation and exemption authority, antitrust immunity, inadequate vessel space and containers at the recent National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America annual conference.
1. Updated e-Manifest: Truck Web-based Training
1. Canada Moving on Its Own "10+2" Proposal
1. CPSC to Start Issuing Its Own Import Detention Notices in May 2010
Broker Power is now issuing weekly summary reports highlighting the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels1 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” BP’s weekly report also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a revised version of its informed compliance publication entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Fasteners of Heading 7318.
Broker Power is now issuing weekly summary reports highlighting the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels1 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection's "Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report." BP's weekly report also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP's weekly "TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List."
CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that it has fixed the previously reported problem with the ABI application that is used to file the stand-alone FDA Prior Notice information (the WP application). Application WP is no longer rejecting for a missing ETP code that was actually transmitted. (See ITT's Online Archives or 03/25/10 news, 10032540 1, for BP summary announcing the problem.) (CSMS 10-000087, dated 03/31/10, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17868&page=&srch_argv=&srchtype=&btype=&sortby=&sby)