On August 3, 2007, President Bush signed into law the conference version of H.R. 1, the "Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007" (Public Law 110-53).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an August 2007 version of its informed compliance publication entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has updated its Web-based training (WBT) for the Automated Commercial Environment to include a course, entitled "Enhanced ACE Accounts and Master Data (A1)," on the new functionality that will be provided in the ACE Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1 release.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message reminding the trade community that 800 Dial-Up service1 for connecting to CBP's automated systems will expire on September 30, 2007. According to CBP, this includes connections to the following CBP automated systems:
The White House has issued a press release announcing that President Bush signed the conference version of H.R. 1, the "Implementing the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007," into law on August 3, 2007. H.R. 1 will, among other things, establish deadlines for 100% scanning of U.S.-bound containers at foreign ports, etc. (White House press release, dated 08/03/07, available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070803-1.html.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Revenue Division Bond Team (Bond Team) has posted to its Web site its July 27, 2007 issue of Current Issues, as highlighted below:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice on its Web site entitled Notice of Examination: October 2007 Customs Broker Examination, which announces that the next customs broker license exam will be held on Monday, October 1, 2007.
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements has issued a notice announcing that the U.S.-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement 2007 tariff preference level for certain non-originating Nicaragua apparel of cotton or man-made fiber, or subject to cotton or MMF restraints,in HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter XV, U.S. Note 15 has been decreased to 97,584,339 SME (from 100,000,000 SME).
In U.S. v. UPS Customhouse Brokerage, Inc.,the Court of International Trade agreed with UPS that the facts presented by Customs were not sufficient to grant summary judgment with respect to penalties imposed concerning certain alleged tariff misclassifications by UPS. As a result, the case must go to trial.
In April 2007 it was reported that U.S. Customs and Border Protection was developing procedures to give Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) members an additional benefit designed to reduce container demurrage.