U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice announcing that the 2007 annual $125 user fee that is assessed for each Customs broker permit and national permit held by an individual, partnership, association, or corporation is due by January 19, 2007.
CBP has recently posted the following to its Web site:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site Amendment 13, dated November 2006, to the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document.
In Retamal and Galvin v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, The CAFC rules that it did not have subject matter jurisdiction to consider the revocation of a customs broker's license for failure to timely file a Triennial Status Report, and remanded the case back to the CIT for dismissal.
Al Jazeera English reaped huge publicity, debuting Wed. with sometimes controversial coverage of an array of topics by high profile journalists. That hasn’t led to U.S. pay-TV carriage deals. Ties to the Arab-language edition, which runs video by terrorists and has been seen by U.S. officials as having an anti-American slant, hurts chances for American carriage, said industry officials, including Virtual Digital Cable (VDC) COO Scott Wolf. His company webcasts the channel.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a November 2006 version of its commercial importing guide entitled "Importing into the United States: A Guide for Commercial Importers."
In U.S. v. UPS Customhouse Brokerage, Inc., dba UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc., the Court of International Trade (CIT) has certified UPS' immediate interlocutory appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on the following question of law regarding multiple broker penalties:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a new version of its Foreign Trade Zones Manual (FTZ Manual) which it compiled as a joint effort with the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (FTZB), the Bureau of the Census (Census), and the National Association of FTZs.
The Pacific Coast Council of Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Associations held its annual Western Cargo Conference (WESCCON) on October 19-21, 2006 in Irvine, CA, during which officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spoke.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message regarding revisions to the Broker Download (BD) Chapter of the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR).