On January 5, 2010, U.S. Customs and Border Protection published a proposed rule that would update 19 CFR Parts 101, 113, and 133 to reflect the centralization of the continuous bond program at CBP's Revenue Division (RD), Office of Finance, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
On March 24, 2010, 74 companies and 37 trade association wrote the leadership of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees to express their support for the preservation of the First Sale Rule, which allows U.S. importers to value imported merchandise using the "first sale" in a series of transactions as the basis for determining duties on products that come into the U.S.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a proposed rule to amend 19 CFR Parts 111 and 163 regarding customs broker recordkeeping requirements as they pertain to the location and method of record retention.
Broker Power is now issuing weekly summary reports highlighting the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels1 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection's "Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report." BP's weekly report also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP's weekly "TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Port of Chicago has issued a Pipeline announcing the automation of Census' import (i.e., Automated Broker Interface/Automated Commercial Environment) parameter change request form.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message stating that the Automated Broker Interface (ABI) system is currently not providing summary selectivity results to inform filers every time an entry summary is selected for team review.
Broker Power is now issuing weekly summary reports highlighting the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels1 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection's "Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report." BP's weekly report also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP's weekly "TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a proposed rule to amend 19 CFR Part 159 to discontinue mailing paper courtesy notices of liquidation to filers whose entry summaries are filed in the Automated Broker Interface (ABI).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the January and February 2010 Trade Support Network monthly activity reports, which summarize the activity of all of the TSN Committees and Subcommittees for those months.
As part of its fiscal year 2011 budget justification document, the Department of Homeland Security listed numerous FY 2011 goals for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Highlights of those goals for ICE's Offices of Domestic and International Investigations include: