The Food and Drug Administration has posted a fact sheet and a slide presentation on its November 2008 final rule on Prior Notice (PN) of imported food and on its draft compliance policy guide outlining FDA's enforcement policies regarding the final rule.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service have issued instructions regarding the submission of the automated and paper versions of the Lacey Act Amendments Plant and Plant Products Declaration (PPQ 505).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials at the March 25, 2009 ACE Information Seminar provided an update on the current status of the Automated Commercial Environment and the capabilities to be delivered in future releases.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has made available through a recent Webinar1 a March 17, 2009 PowerPoint presentation containing updated information on the Lacey Act Amendments declaration requirement for imported plant and plant products.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will automate versions of the following most commonly used CBP forms with the deployment of ESAR A2.2 (the Initial Entry Summary Types release)1, which is expected in spring 2009:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing the expected implementation date for two rules in the Batch & Block Control Chapter of the ACE ABI CATAIR1 that will need to be adhered to for all messages for six ABI application identifiers, or fatal errors will result.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a presentation providing an update on ACE ESAR A2.2 (the Initial Entry Summary Types release) and A2.3.1a (the Antidumping/Countervailing Duty (AD/CVD) release) that was given at the March 3-4, 2009 Trade Support Network meeting.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently posted to its Web site a frequently asked question (FAQ) document regarding its interim final rule that amended 19 CFR effective January 26, 2009, to require Security Filing (SF) information from importers and additional information from carriers (10+2) for vessel (maritime) cargo before it is brought into the U.S.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted its report to Congress on the Automated Commercial Environment for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008 (July 1 through September 30, 2008).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that the trade can now use Remote Location Filing Prototype (RLF) to transmit both the entry/entry summary data (ABI application EI) and the Importer Security Filing at the same time (also known as a RLF Unified EI/ISF).