According to press and trade sources, U.S. Customs and Border Protection is expected to issue a proposed rule by late summer or early fall 2007 containing its proposed SF (10 2) requirements for 10 additional data elements from importers 24 hours prior to foreign lading, and for 2 additional data sets from ocean carriers, for imported maritime cargo.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that the ABI broker statistics report for May 2007 encountered a problem which caused the report to truncate after approximately three-quarters of the filers had been notified.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that the new Automated Commercial Environment reports tool has been temporarily disabled.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing that the fifth group of land border ports to become mandatory for the Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes will be those in Idaho and Montana effective August 6, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that ACE Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue A1 is scheduled to be deployed (go into production) on August 11, 2007.
The Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued a notice announcing the initiation of and requesting comments on a pilot program1 to demonstrate the ability of Mexico-based motor carriers to operate safely in the U.S. beyond the commercial zones along the U.S.-Mexico border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted Amendment 5 (dated April 2007) to the Customs Automated Manifest Interface Requirements (CAMIR)-Intermodal. According to CBP, the changes in Amendment 5 are as follows:
The Drug Enforcement Administration has issued an interim final rule, effective May 9, 2007, to require additional reporting for import, export, and international transactions involving all List I and List II chemicals, and to implement section 716 of the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 (CMEA).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted notice on its Web site notifying all individuals who took the April 2, 2007 Customs Broker License Exam that due to extenuating circumstances the exams have not yet been scored. CBP states that it is anticipated that the exam will be scored by May 15, 2007. According to CBP, once the results are received by CBP, the notification process will be expedited. (CBP notice, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/broker_management/broker_exam/.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message announcing new procedures for requesting duty-free certificates from the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) for commercial shipments classified in Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) 9808.00.301.