A number of documents have been posted to the International Trade Data System1 Web site, including one from U.S. Customs and Border Protection that discusses the functionality that will be available to certain ITDS Participating Government Agencies in future Automated Commercial Environment releases2.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message reminding the trade that ABI (Automated Broker Interface) trade volunteers interested in participating in the test for Entry Summary, Account, and Revenue (ESAR) A2.2, which includes filing informal and formal entries (type 01 and 11) via ACE, must submit their comments and indication of interest by October 27, 2008.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a notice to inform the public of the new Lacey Act provisions enacted by the 2008 Farm Bill, including the declaration required to be submitted at time of importation for certain plants and plant products that takes effect on December 15, 2008, and APHIS' plan for phasing-in and enforcing this requirement.
The Census Bureau has issued a memorandum to certain government agencies and members of the trade1 stating that reuse of the shipment reference number reported in the Automated Export System (AES) is prohibited.
A list broker agreed to a court order proposed by the Federal Trade Commission barring him from violating the Telemarketing Sales Rule, the commission said Wednesday. The order settles an FTC complaint alleging that from 2002 to 2007 broker Glenn Patten and his two companies helped telemarketers of fraudulent “advance-fee” credit cards by selling them unencrypted, unauthorized consumer information, including bank and credit-card information. The order bars Patten from collecting, selling, renting or disclosing consumers’ account numbers, with narrow exceptions. Patten must provide the FTC with account-number lists and destroy all other copies. Patten must monitor customers and investigate complaints about them. Patten must report to the FTC any customer he finds violating commission rules. The order mandated a $120,000 fine against Patten but suspended it because he can’t pay. Still, the FTC said it can collect the fine if it learns that Patten has misrepresented his finances. The proposed order was filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
1. DDTC Forms With Expiration Date of 9/30 Still Valid
Licensed Motor Carriers (LMCs) must submit their Port of Los Angeles Clean Truck Program concession applications by Wednesday, September 24, 2008 to be approved as trucking concessionaires by the October 1, 2008 start date of the Port's Clean Truck Program. The Port will continue receiving and processing applications on an ongoing basis, but based on the overwhelming response by the trucking community, the Port cannot ensure that applications received after September 24 will be processed by October 1. (Port of Los Angeles news release, dated 09/19/08, available at http://www.portoflosangeles.org/newsroom/2008_releases/news_091908ctpapp.pdf.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that beginning on or about October 24, 20081, CBP will use a new system, the Decal and Transponder Online Procurement System (DTOPS), for user fee decal and transponder transactions.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the agenda, presentations, and materials used during the September 8 - 11, 2008 meeting of the Trade Support Network (TSN) held in Tyson's Corner, VA.