U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an additional chapter to the ACE ABI CATAIR1 entitled "ABI Batch & Block Control."
CBP has posted Amendment 29 to the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document. According to CBP, the CATAIR has been amended as follows:
The Food and Drug Administration has issued its final rule, effective May 6, 2009, on the submission to FDA of prior notice (PN) of food, including animal feed, which is imported or offered for import into the U.S.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued its final rule, effective May 6, 20091, on the submission to FDA of prior notice (PN) of food, including animal feed, which is imported or offered for import into the U.S.
CBP and China Customs concluded a second round of joint Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) supply chain security validation visits during the week of November 17, 2008. CBP C-TPAT Supply Chain Specialists supported China Customs officials while they conducted validations of 15 C-TPAT companies and their manufacturing facilities located in China.
The World Customs Organization has posted a press release announcing that on October 22, 2008, Ecuador deposited with the WCO Secretary General its instrument of accession to the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System). This makes Ecuador the 135th Contracting Party to the Harmonized System Convention. (WCO, dated 11/07/08, available at http://www.wcoomd.org/press/default.aspx?lid=1&id=168)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted revised ACE ABI CATAIR1 chapters and reference documents to its Web site.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the October 2008 customs broker license exam answer key.
CBP has posted a memorandum regarding the re-allocation of Mexico's portion of the recently increased fiscal year 2008 tariff rate quota for refined sugar to the global refined sugar TRQ. The re-allocation will be administered on a first-come, first-served basis, in five separate openings, beginning with an allocation of 28,278,000 kg. The first opening was on October 30, 2008. The remaining allocations will consist of 10,000,000 kg each, which CBP will announce in subsequent notices. (See ITT's Online Archives or 10/31/08 news, 08103110, for most recent BP summary on the re-allocation.) (QBT-08-536, dated 10/30/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2008/qbt_08_536.ctt/qbt_08_536.pdf)
The Food and Drug Administration has issued its final rule, effective 180 days after its November 7, 2008 publication in the Federal Register, on the submission to FDA of prior notice of food, including animal feed, which is imported or offered for import into the U.S.