During the November 16, 2007 meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC), members of COAC agreed on a letter which will be sent to CBP Commissioner Basham regarding CBP's Office of International Trade (OT) and its impact on trade one year after it was formed.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted its new Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism minimum security criteria for air carriers. CBP has also posted its implementation plan for the new criteria.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has published a list of field offices whose ports accept the electronic CBP Form 214 (e214, Foreign Trade Zone Admission and/or Status Designation) in lieu of a paper copy.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing that the seventh group of land border ports to become mandatory for the Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes will be those in Alaska (Alcan, Dalton Cache, and Skagway) effective February 11, 2008.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site the tentative agenda for the CBP Trade Symposium 2007 which will be held on November 14-15, 2007 in Washington, DC.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a notice providing details on the enhancements to the Automated Commercial Environment account type for importers that were implemented with the deployment Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1.
On October 30, 2007, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation amended and ordered to be favorably reported S. 2045, the CPSC Reform Act of 2007, to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide greater protection to children's products, and for other purposes.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that CBP will implement a new administrative message process to communicate to trade users of all CBP commercial systems.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a notice providing details on the enhancements to the Automated Commercial Environment account type for brokers that were implemented with the deployment Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1.
The L.A. Harbor Commission approved on November 1, 2007 a measure that will help reduce port-related truck emissions by 80 percent by progressively banning older trucks from operation at the port, beginning October 1, 2008. The measure requires mayoral and city council approval by adoption of a city ordinance. The Port of Long Beach will deliberate a similar ban. (Home page http://www.portoflosangeles.org/; approved tariff at http://www.portoflosangeles.org/ )