According to The Journal of Commerce, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Basham stated at CBP's 7th Annual Trade Symposium that the agency intends to implement rules requiring importers to provide additional data to identify high-risk ocean shipments - the 10 2 data - by the end of summer 2007. Basham stated that Customs is not going to implement all the data requirements at once, but will phase them in to minimize their impact. (JoC, dated 12/14/06, available at www.joc.com )
Conventional real estate firms are trying to squeeze out online brokers using legislation and anticompetitive tactics, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) said Wed. at a news conference. Online home-selling businesses have multiplied in recent years, with RealEstate.com and ZipRealty doubling their business, CFA said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a "strawman proposal"1 entitled "CBP Proposal for Advance Trade Data Elements", in order to facilitate its development of regulations to collect 10 additional commercial shipping data elements from importers or their agents and 2 additional data sets from ocean carriers. CBP's proposal is commonly referred to as ten plus two (10+2).
The telco and wireless industries hailed an antipretexting bill (HR-4709) that Congress passed in the early hours of Sat. It would outlaw impersonation to get private phone records (CD Dec 9 Bulletin). “Pretexting is fraud -- pure and simple -- and I applaud Congress for moving to put a strong federal law on the books,” said CTIA Pres. Steve Largent. Wireless carriers will keep working to protect themselves and customers from such schemes, he said, and the legislation offers a “significant and meaningful deterrent.”
The telco and wireless industries hailed an antipretexting bill (HR-4709) that Congress passed in the early hours of Sat. It would outlaw impersonation to get private phone records, often sold by Web-based outfits -- sometimes to law enforcement (WID July 23 p3). “Pretexting is fraud -- pure and simple -- and I applaud Congress for moving to put a strong federal law on the books,” said CTIA Pres. Steve Largent. Wireless carriers will keep working to protect themselves and customers from such schemes, he said, and the legislation offers a “significant and meaningful deterrent.”
Craigslist probably won’t stream video resumes any time soon, despite YouTube’s influence, CEO Jim Buckmaster told a UBS media conference in N.Y. Thurs. Even if the 20-person company does roll out multimedia, it lacks the staff to review content before posting, he said. The company doesn’t lack money, but the only change users can expect is local language versions of some foreign sites, he said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a list of questions and answers from the importer and broker session of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Exchange II Conference.
CBP has issued an ABI administrative message stating that on December 8, 2006 the port of Chicago will be moving to the Rosemont, Illinois facility. Due to the move, people should not to deliver any duty payments or customs paperwork to the port of Chicago office. As a result, December 8, 2006 will be considered a snow day. CBP is extending one additional day without penalty for the filing and payment of entry summaries due on that day. (CBP Adm: 06-1204, dated 12/05/06, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2006/2006-1204.ADM)
The U.S. is preparing to implement hundreds of tariff changes in the 2007 U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) in order to conform U.S. law to international Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature changes recommended for adoption by the World Customs Organization (WCO), and to certain Harmonized System Committee (HSC) decisions necessary to ensure uniform application of the nomenclature, etc.
Broker Power is able to provide quota prices (generally twice a month) for a limited number of textile and apparel categories from the People's Republic of China (China) that are subject to "agreed quotas" and publicly traded. (These publicly traded quota prices have been provided by a Hong Kong quota broker.)