U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its interim final rule which will amend 19 CFR Parts 4, 12, 18, 101, 103, 113, 122, 123, 141, 143, 149, 178, and 192, effective January 26, 2009, to require Security Filing (SF) information from importers and additional information from carriers (10+2) for vessel (maritime) cargo before it is brought into the U.S.1
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum regarding the impact of Presidential Proclamation 8323, which granted Mauritius preferential tariff treatment accorded to designated African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) lesser developed beneficiary sub-Saharan African countries and suspended Bolivia from the list of countries eligible to receive benefits under the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA). CBP has updated programming to allow the use of HTS 9819.11.12 for goods from Mauritius entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after October 31, 2008. CBP will no longer allow claims under HTS 9821.11.25 for textile goods from Bolivia effective December 15, 2008. (See ITT's Online Archives or 12/05/08 news, 08120505, for BP summary on Proclamation 8323.) (QBT-08-119, dated 12/04/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2008/qbt_08_119.ctt/qbt_08_119.pdf)
Details on CBP's Interim Final Rule on 10+2 for Maritime Cargo (Part III - Importer SF Requirements)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its interim final rule which will amend 19 CFR Parts 4, 12, 18, 101, 103, 113, 122, 123, 141, 143, 149, 178, and 192, effective January 26, 2009, to require Security Filing (SF) information from importers and additional information from carriers (10+2) for vessel (maritime) cargo before it is brought into the U.S.1
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued revised versions of its informed compliance publications entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Internal Combustion Piston Engines and What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Turbojets, Turbopropellers and Other Gas Turbines, (HTSUS 8411) and Parts Thereof.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a general notice announcing that the 2009 annual user fee of $138 assessed for each customs broker permit and national permit held by an individual, partnership, association, or corporation is due by January 23, 2009.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an additional chapter to the ACE ABI CATAIR1 entitled "ABI Batch & Block Control."
CBP has posted Amendment 29 to the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document. According to CBP, the CATAIR has been amended as follows:
The Food and Drug Administration has issued its final rule, effective May 6, 2009, on the submission to FDA of prior notice (PN) of food, including animal feed, which is imported or offered for import into the U.S.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued its final rule, effective May 6, 20091, on the submission to FDA of prior notice (PN) of food, including animal feed, which is imported or offered for import into the U.S.
CBP and China Customs concluded a second round of joint Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) supply chain security validation visits during the week of November 17, 2008. CBP C-TPAT Supply Chain Specialists supported China Customs officials while they conducted validations of 15 C-TPAT companies and their manufacturing facilities located in China.