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/ )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice to its Web site announcing that the first fiscal year 2008 specialty sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ) (i.e. tranche) that opened on October 24, 2007 oversubscribed at opening moment. The pro-rata percentage is .1687649 or 16.87649%.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection previously issued two ABI administrative messages1 providing answers to frequently asked questions regarding what brokers can and cannot do via the Automated Commercial Environment portal with the CBP Form 5106 (importer ID input record add/update) for either U.S. or non-resident importers.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently issued a general notice announcing CBP's plan to conduct a new National Customs Automation Program (NCAP) test concerning Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Entry Summary, Accounts and Revenue (ESAR) capabilities, the first aspect of which is ESAR A1.