U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that the deployment of ACE Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue A1 has been delayed until August 25, 2007.
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a news release announcing that 29 defendants in New York, New Jersey and California have been charged with conspiracy to smuggle over 950 shipments, both counterfeit and authentic, following a 19 month investigation by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Cable operators not granted last-minute waivers of a rule barring them from shipping set-top boxes with integrated conditional access features are weighing their options in the wake of the Media Bureau’s late Friday action, some said. The Bureau temporarily waived the rule, which requires set- top boxes to support separable security like CableCARDs, for pay-TV providers including Verizon, Qwest and some cable operators who operate or have pledged to operator all-digital systems before broadcasters’ DTV transition (CD June 29 Special Bulletin p1) or (CED June 29 Special Bulletin p1). It denied another batch of requests, giving some operators until September to get into compliance.
Cable operators not granted last-minute waivers of a rule barring them from shipping set-top boxes with integrated conditional access features are weighing their options in the wake of the Media Bureau’s late Friday action, some said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site various materials related to presentations made at the June 20-22, 2007 meeting of the Trade Support Network (TSN).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice to its Web site announcing that it will be holding the Automated Commercial Environment Exchange VI conference in Brooklyn, NY on July 30 - August 1, 2007.
According to numerous press and government reports, China announced its decision to cut or do away with value-added tax rebates for exports of more than 2,800 commodities, effective July 1, 2007. This change will affect the profit margins of many industries, including energy and resource intensive products such as cement, fertilizer and non-ferrous metals, as well as products that cause trade frictions, such as garments, toys, steel products and motorcycles.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a notice announcing that it has completed the necessary programming changes for automated filing through the Automated Broker Interface (ABI) for the new textile provision and "abundant supply" apparel provision recently added to the African Growth and Opportunity Act for lesser developed beneficiary countries (LDBCs). CBP states that claims for preferential tariff treatment under the new AGOA provision in HTS 9819.15.10 (denim) for qualifying merchandise entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after October 1, 2006 may be filed via ABI.
Below is information regarding upcoming events for which Certified Customs Specialists can earn continuing education credits.
Shippers' NewsWire reports that the third erroneous shipment of beef mistakenly sent to South Korea was intended for U.S. use and was sent by a South Korean company in California that exported the products to Korea. Korea's government stopped all U.S. beef imports for four days while it investigated the first two erroneous shipments, which sent 66.4 tons of U.S. beef to Korea in violation of the country's import rules. (SNW, dated 06/21/07, www.americanshipper.com)