The Department of Health and Human Services has issued a news release announcing that the Bush Administration is amending its budget request for fiscal year 2009 to include an additional $275 million for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. HHS also posted a fact sheet on investing in FDA's transformation. (HHS press release, dated 06/09/08, available at http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2008pres/06/20080609a.html; HHS fact sheet, dated 06/09/08, available at http://www.hhs.gov/news/facts/fdatransformation.html.)
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, ACE (Automated Commercial Environment) Reports have been made easier with the release of its ACE Portal Reports Dictionaries.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that trade testing for ACE (Automated Commercial Environment) release M1 (e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail for advance cargo information purposes) will begin no sooner than September 2008.
CBP has posted an updated version of its "ACE on the Road" event schedule, which includes the following events:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted "ACE Overview" fact sheets on the benefits associated with certain ACE (Automated Commercial Environment) Secure Data Portal account types.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message which states that at approximately 11:56 EDT on June 9, 2008 Automated Commercial Environment users began experiencing slow responses impacting CBP and Trade users. Service was expected to be restored at 13:30 EDT. CBP notes that updates will follow if necessary. (CSMS 08-000101, dated 06/09/08, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17109&page=&srch_argv=08-000101&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a June 2008 revised version of its Informed Compliance Publication "Classification of Hats and Other Headgear (under HTSUS Heading 6505)" as part of its series "What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an Excel spreadsheet listing the reject reasons for May 2008 for CBP Form 5106 Importer ID input records, CBP Form 301 Customs bonds, bond riders, bond terminations, etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing its deployment of ad hoc reporting capabilities as an enhancement to the Automated Commercial Environment reports.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of June 2, 2008. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)