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A class 9 bonded warehouse operator may sell merchandise for domestic use in addition to duty-free goods, said CBP in a May 15 internal advice ruling, HQ H161256. The ruling comes in response to a request from the operator to the Port of New York/Newark that was passed up to headquarters. The internal advice request was submitted to CBP headquarters in 2011, the ruling said. Due "to changes in business conditions" the operator was considering selling merchandise to customers domestically in addition to duty-free merchandise and asked for agency input, said CBP.
CBP should require national customs broker permit holders to hire a certain number of licensed brokers in order to ensure responsible supervision and control when doing customs business, said the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA) in a position paper. The paper describes the NCBFAA's various thoughts on how CBP should update customs broker regulations as it moves toward increased reliance on the national permit as part of the agency's modernization efforts. The Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations for CBP recently advised the agency to also install some employment requirements in the regulations, but did not offer specific numbers (see 14052209).
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CBP said the following customs broker licenses and all associated permits are canceled without prejudice:
Mexican, U.S. and Canadian trade officials are fully committed to developing and implementing a unified North American single window portal for the import and export of goods, but the broader trade agenda continues to take precedent over the initiative, said Mexican trade officials at a Peterson Institute of International Economics event on July 15. The U.S. is aiming to implement its single window, the Automated Commercial Environment and International Trade Data System, by 2016 and then will turn its attention to the unified portal, said CBP deputy commissioner Kevin McAleenan in June (see 14061803).
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) will not move forward on a number of the agency's proposals that would have resulted in some new financial and licensing requirements for Ocean Transport Intermediaries (OTIs), said the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America. "Specifically, the FMC will not require any new license applications every two years, will not establish any summary revocation procedure for licenses, will not increase OTI bonds, will not establish any bond priority system or public filing of bond claims, will not establish regulations for advertising or the proposed rebuttable presumptions concerning the legality of actions by agents, and will not require all agency agreements to be in writing," the association said.
CBP will not consider the edges of fabric, known as selvage, when it reviews the classification of banners imported by FNS Customs Brokers for its client, Moojin Chem, the agency said in response to an internal advice request. The company requested that CBP weigh in on the classification of imports of two sizes of mesh banners, both of which have frayed edges that "are not embedded, coated or covered with plastic." The ruling, HQ H242096, is dated May 7 and was sent to the New Orleans Port Director.
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The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America warned of possible efforts to steal members' login credentials in a July 10 email. "Recently, an individual registered a site that 'spoofed' the NCBFAA site," said NCBFAA. As a result, using a search engine to find NCBFAA's site would turn up the fake address, ncbfab.com, it said. Because of the similarity to "the actual NCBFAA URL, ncbfaa.org, users may have been fooled into opening it and attempting to log onto the imitation site. The offending website has been suspended and clicking on the phony URL now returns the message 'Network Access Message: The website cannot be found.'" NCBFAA suggested that members change their passwords for the site.