Piecemeal federal privacy safeguards don’t work and major legal loopholes keep them from helping citizens, businesses and govt., House Commerce Consumer Protection Subcommittee leaders said Tues. Little has changed since the panel’s 2001 privacy hearing, its first, Chmn. Stearns (R- Fla.) said. The U.S. still handles privacy via a “sector-specific, disjointed approach” as officials juggle ever more local, state and federal rules on notice, consent and security, he said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a June 2006 update on ACE e-Manifest: Truck which states that it will soon be mandatory for all carriers to file their manifest electronically to comply with the Trade Act of 2002's mandatory advance cargo (manifest) information requirements.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice to its Web site announcing that the fourth tranche of the tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for specialty sugar over-subscribed at opening moment on June 7, 2006. The pro rata percentage is .5683 or 56.83%.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site Amendment 7, dated June 2006, to the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements document (CATAIR).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a new informed compliance publication (ICP) entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Base Metal Mountings and Fittings.
American Shipper reports that the House of Representatives was expected to meet on June 7, 2006 to consider H.R. 5441, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, and that a house member may offer two amendments that call for 100% inspection of U.S. bound air and ocean cargo. (American Shipper, dated 06/07/06, www.americanshipper.com)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice on its web site, entitled Notice of Examination for October 2006, which announces that the next Customs Broker License Examination will be held on Tuesday, October 3, 2006.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the low-duty Tariff Preference Level (TPL) (2) for Mexico filled on May 22, 2006 at 3:40 p.m.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a proposed rule which would add a new 19 CFR Part 360 in order to establish a Mexican Cement Import Licensing System in accordance with an agreement between Mexico and the U.S. on Trade in Cement (agreement) which settles ongoing litigation before the NAFTA and WTO dispute resolution panels, and provides for export limits for three years.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an updated list of 44 administrative messages, from May 2006 back to 1993, detailing procedures for Remote Location Filing (RLF), Electronic Invoice Processing (EIP), and the use of Invoice by Request (INVREQ) in both RLF and EIP. This updated list reflects the addition of Adm: 06-0511. (List of RLF and EIP Messages, dated 05/23/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/cargo_summary/remote_location_filing/operational_notes/message_list.xml)