U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an informed compliance publication entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Fasteners of Heading 7318.
The Justice Department has issued a press release announcing that a federal court in Richmond, Virginia has unsealed an indictment of three defendants involved in one of the largest ever counterfeit luxury goods operations in the U.S.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently issued several documents announcing that it is scheduled to launch a new means of delivering information on its Automated Commercial Trade Interface Systems, called the Cargo Systems Messaging Service (CSMS), on February 11, 2008.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the following Automated Commercial Environment fact sheets:
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources, two truck Automated Commercial Environment updates that were scheduled to be implemented on Saturday, January 26, 2008 are now rescheduled for Saturday, February 2, 2008.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice entitled Notice of Examination: April 2008 Customs Broker Examination, which announces that the next customs broker license exam will be held on Monday, April 7, 2008.
The following Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Court of International Trade cases on international trade issues were decided during January 22 - 24, 2008:
A federal judge shut down an information broker accused of selling confidential phone records on consumers without their knowledge or consent. Accusearch, doing business as Abika.com, will forfeit nearly $200,000 in profits and must notify those whose data it sold. The defendants were accused of advertising on their Web site that they could get anyone’s confidential phone records, including details of outgoing and incoming calls. They used “false pretenses, fraudulent statements, fraudulent or stolen documents or other misrepresentations, including posing as a customer,” to get phone companies to give up the confidential records, the FTC said.
A federal judge shut down an information broker accused of selling confidential phone records on consumers without their knowledge or consent. Accusearch, doing business as Abika.com, will forfeit nearly $200,000 in profits and must notify those whose data it sold. The defendants were accused of advertising on their Web site that they could get anyone’s confidential phone records, including details of outgoing and incoming calls. They used “false pretenses, fraudulent statements, fraudulent or stolen documents or other misrepresentations, including posing as a customer,” to get phone companies to give up the confidential records, the FTC said.
On January 26, 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection was scheduled to implement an Automated Commercial Environment update to enable electronic in-bond requests filed via the Automated Broker Interface message QP1 to update a shipment that is reported in a truck ACE e-manifest with a shipment release type of Pre-Arrival Processing System (PAPS2).