U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a third draft version, 'Draft 3,' dated January 7, 2005, of CBP's draft new C-TPAT Security Standards for Importers, which is available for distribution to subscribers.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has previously announced that the 2005 annual $125 user fee that is assessed for each Customs broker permit and national permit held by an individual, partnership, association, or corporation is due by January 21, 2005.
American Shipper reports that on January 7, 2005, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) distributed a third draft of new C-TPAT security standards for importers to a select group of importers and trade associations, and have asked for feedback by Friday, January 14, 2005. (ShippersNewsWire@americanshipper.com )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice announcing the two-year extension of the quota preprocessing program (QPP) test, in order to provide for the electronic processing of certain quota-class apparel merchandise prior to the arrival of the importing carrier, through December 31, 20061.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that the tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for Canadian cheddar cheese as provided for in HTS Chapter 4, Additional U.S. Note (AUSN) 18, which opened on Monday, January 3, 2005, did not oversubscribe at the opening. Therefore, all entries presented at opening have been charged and may be released. (See ITT's Online Archives or 01/04/05 news, 05010445 6, for BP summary on CBP's notice announcing this 2005 TRQ.) (QBT-05-500, dated 01/05/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2005/05_500.ctt/05_500.doc)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) Office of Information and Technology has posted a notice to its Web site containing a list, as of January 4, 2005, of companies/persons offering data processing services to the trade community for the Automated Broker Interface (ABI).
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a 2004 year end review fact sheet which highlights accomplishments and statistics for various DHS agencies including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Transportation and Security Administration (TSA), etc. (DHS fact sheet, available at )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted to its Web site an amended version of an earlier memorandum which, effective October 1, 2004, revised CBP's policy pertaining to the identification of the ultimate consignee at time of entry or release.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the port of Blaine, WA has issued a Port (Trade) Information Notice notifying the trade community of the shutdown of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Release 4 Truck Manifest pilot.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted separate notices to its Web site which list the calendar year 2005 Tariff Preference Levels (TPLs) for certain textiles and apparel from Canada and Mexico. These 2005 TPLs are set at the same levels as the 2004 TPL levels (with the exception of one Mexico TPL which expired, see below).