U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted its new Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) minimum security criteria for U.S. and foreign-based marine port authority and terminal operators (MPTOs). CBP has also posted an implementation plan for the new C-TPAT criteria.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted its Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) minimum security criteria for Mexican long haul highway carriers (Mexican carriers). CBP has also posted an associated implementation plan.
At the Automated Commercial Environment Exchange VI conference held July 30-August 1, 2007 in Brooklyn, NY, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials discussed the deployment of ACE Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1, which is currently scheduled to be deployed on August 25, 20071.
On August 3, 2007, President Bush signed into law the conference version of H.R. 1, the "Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007" (Public Law 110-53).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an August 2007 version of its informed compliance publication entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has updated its Web-based training (WBT) for the Automated Commercial Environment to include a course, entitled "Enhanced ACE Accounts and Master Data (A1)," on the new functionality that will be provided in the ACE Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1 release.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message reminding the trade community that 800 Dial-Up service1 for connecting to CBP's automated systems will expire on September 30, 2007. According to CBP, this includes connections to the following CBP automated systems:
The White House has issued a press release announcing that President Bush signed the conference version of H.R. 1, the "Implementing the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007," into law on August 3, 2007. H.R. 1 will, among other things, establish deadlines for 100% scanning of U.S.-bound containers at foreign ports, etc. (White House press release, dated 08/03/07, available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070803-1.html.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Revenue Division Bond Team (Bond Team) has posted to its Web site its July 27, 2007 issue of Current Issues, as highlighted below:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice on its Web site entitled Notice of Examination: October 2007 Customs Broker Examination, which announces that the next customs broker license exam will be held on Monday, October 1, 2007.