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.)
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.