U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a document listing the questions and answers from the importer and broker session of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Exchange II Conference that was held from October 30-November 2, 2006 in Tucson, Arizona.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced 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.
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 ("WCO changes").
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a document listing the questions and answers from the importer and broker session of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Exchange II Conference that was held from October 30-November 2, 2006 in Tucson, Arizona.
CBP has posted to its Web site a notice announcing the 2007 tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for the exported products provided for under the U.S. Jordan FTA in HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter IX, Notes 3, 4, 5, and 6 listed below:
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, 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.”
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.”