The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued an interim rule, effective February 27, 2007, which adds a new Part 208 to 19 CFR to provide for ITC investigations, determinations, reports, and petitions from interested parties, regarding "abundant supply" fabric/yarn determinations, as required by recent amendments to the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
The Journal of Commerce reports that the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA) and the Airforwarders Association recently announced a "Strategic Alliance for Freight Forwarder Endeavors," a joint lobbying effort to work on issues facing forwarders, such as inspection of all air cargo on passenger planes, etc. (JoC dated 04/11/07, www.joc.com.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing that the fourth group of land border ports to become mandatory for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) electronic manifest: Truck (e-Manifest: Truck1) for advance cargo information purposes will be those in Vermont and New Hampshire as well as the remaining land border ports in North Dakota - St. John, Fortuna, Ambrose, Carbury, Noonan, Dunseith, Sherwood, Antler, Northgate, Westhope, and Portal, effective July 12, 2007.
In December 2006, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued its minimum-security criteria for Customs brokers already enrolled in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program and those Customs brokers wishing to join. At the time, CBP also issued its implementation plan for the new criteria.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a notice announcing that it has completed the necessary programming changes for automated filing through the Automated Broker Interface (ABI) of Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement (HOPE) Act of 2006 entries. CBP states that all claims for preferential tariff treatment under the Haitian HOPE Act may be filed via an ABI entry. For shipments of apparel, the Haitian HOPE Act visa number should be reported in the proper format in the visa field.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice, and CBP sources have stated, that CBP is announcing its plan to continue its voluntary test of the Electronic Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) Admission Application Program for an additional 6 months from March 26, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a table regarding the user fees that are collected by CBP.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an updated version of its lengthy document on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) entitled "ACE Frequently Asked Questions."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a new informed compliance publication (ICP) entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Agglomerated Stone.
Carriers are expected to challenge in court the FCC’s decision to require them to get customers’ consent before sharing customer proprietary network information (CPNI) data with joint venture partners or independent contractors for marketing, sources said Tues. Under the rule change, customers must “opt in” to give carriers permission to share the data.