In late January 2009, President Bush issued Proclamation 8341, which amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule to implement the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA or PFTA) effective for goods entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after February 1, 2009.
U.K. ISPs would have to notify alleged file-swappers and collect anonymized data on serious repeat offenders for rights-holders under an interim government plan announced Thursday. A “Digital Britain” report by Stephen Carter, the communications, technology and broadcasting minister, offers 22 recommendations for keeping the U.K. at the forefront of the global digital economy. In addition to digital content matters, it covers next generation networks, universal broadband access, wireless spectrum, digital radio and digital delivery of public services. Proposals to require ISPs to shoulder more responsibility for policing online pirates troubled the music industry, ISPs and rights activists alike.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that the ABI system has not yet been updated to accept Importer Security Filings (ISFs) when the broker is using the Remote Location Filing Prototype to transmit both the entry/entry summary data and the ISF at the same time (otherwise known as a RLF Unified EI).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ACE information notice for truck carriers and customs brokers, which clarifies the e-Manifest: Truck filing and entry requirements when multiple shippers and/or consignees are involved.
The Federal Maritime Commission has issued a notice announcing that it will hold a partially closed meeting on January 28, 2009 in Washington, DC. During the closed portion of the meeting, the FMC will consider an amendment to the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (Agreement No. 011223-043).
CBP has posted to its Web site an additional Importer Security Filing (ISF) transaction set. CBP has also issued a CSMS message announcing changes to a record within another ISF transaction set.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice entitled Notice of Examination: April 2009 Customs Broker License Examination, which announces that the next customs broker license exam will be held on Monday, April 6, 2009.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has previously issued a general notice announcing that the 2009 annual user fee of $138 assessed for each customs broker permit and national permit held by an individual, partnership, association, or corporation is due by January 23, 2009.
The Federal Maritime Commission has issued a notice announcing that on January 14, 2009, the Commissioners voted to deny requests for expedited reviews of:
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) and tariff preference level (TPL) commodity report as of January 12, 2009. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (Note that CBP also recently posted a January 8, 2009 version of this report.) (Weekly commodity report available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)