U.S. Customs and Broker Protection has posted two new Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) ABI CATAIR documents to its Web site: (i) ACE Entry Summary Examples and (ii) Selected EDI "Entry Summary Create/Update" Filing and Response Scenarios.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an Excel spreadsheet listing the reject reasons for June 2008 for CBP Form 5106 Importer ID input records, CBP Form 301 Customs bonds, bond riders, bond terminations, etc.
The Senate voted 69-28 Wednesday for a bill (HR-6304) to offer retroactive immunity to telecom carriers alleged to have aided the government in post-Sept. 11 surveillance. The bill goes to President Bush for an expected signature. Civil liberties groups condemned the bill, saying they look forward to reviving the debate next Congress. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., a foe of the bill, vowed to take up the issue when dealing with reauthorization of the Patriot Act.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a revised version of its informed compliance publication entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Table and Kitchen Glassware.
The Senate voted 69-28 Wednesday for a bill (HR-6304) to offer retroactive immunity to telecom carriers alleged to have aided the government in post-Sept. 11 surveillance. The bill goes to President Bush for an expected signature. Civil liberties groups condemned the bill, saying they look forward to reviving the debate next Congress. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., a foe of the bill, vowed to take up the issue when dealing with reauthorization of the Patriot Act.
On June 19, 2008, the House Committee of Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation held a hearing on "Federal Maritime Commission Management and Regulation of International Shipping."
On June 28, 2008, the U.S. and Canada signed a mutual recognition arrangement agreeing to mutual standards for Canada's Partners in Protection (PIP) and the U.S.' Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) programs.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE Workplan Schedule," which provides a list of the changes and/or fixes to the Automated Commercial Environment and other systems it interfaces with that were scheduled for deployment on May 31, 2008 and June 21, 2008.
Yahoo! News Canada reports that South Korea says it will move slowly in allowing back U.S. beef imports so as to calm an angry public that has staged mass street protests for weeks against the product. (The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced on June 21, 2008 that the two countries had reached a commercial understanding that only U.S. beef from cattle under 30 months of age will be shipped to Korea as a "transitional" measure, to improve Korean confidence in U.S. beef.) (Yahoo! News Canada, dated 06/23/08, available at http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080623/world/international_korea_usa_beef_dc)
Treasury Secretary Paulson will attend a day of meetings hosted by theMexican Finance Minister on Tuesday to discuss regional finance and economic issues. (Treasury Dept. press release, HP-1045, dated 06/19/08, available at http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp1045.htm)