U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site (and issued as an administrative message) a document entitled "Periodic Monthly Statement Application Procedures for non-Portal Accounts and C-TPAT Certified Partners Who Hold Portal Accounts."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) Office of Information and Technology has posted a notice to CBP's Web site containing a list, as of October 25, 2005, of companies/persons offering data processing services to the trade community for the Automated Broker Interface (ABI).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message containing detailed instructions on how to create Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) non-Portal Accounts for importers wishing to participate in Periodic Monthly Statement (PMS).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site another update on the status of its plans to conduct a voluntary test of electronic foreign trade zone (FTZ) admission applications for merchandise reported to CBP via air, sea, and rail manifest.
CBP has posted to its Web site revised and slightly reformatted Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) online applications for (1) U.S./Mexico highway carriers; (2) U.S./Canada highway carriers; and (3) licensed customs brokers.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice, effective immediately, which announces several changes to enable importers to more easily participate in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)) Periodic Monthly Statement (PMS) test.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently issued an interim rule which, effective October 5, 2005, eliminated the textile declaration requirement and newly required the Manufacturer Identification Code (MID) for textile and apparel products from all countries to be constructed from the name and address of the entity performing the origin-conferring operations, etc. (See ITT's Online Archives or 10/06/05 news 05100605 for Part I of BP's two-part summary of this interim rule.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message to all Northern and Southern border brokers stating that effective immediately, all ABI entry data transmissions for the truck mode of transportation should not have any data in the House bill field. (CBP Adm: 05-1186, dated 10/14/05, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2005/2005-1186.ADM )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message to all ABI vendors and self-programmed importers and brokers regarding participation in the upcoming voluntary test of electronic foreign trade zone (FTZ) admission applications for merchandise reported to CBP via air, sea, and rail manifest.
The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has issued a notice to the wildlife import/export community detailing the operational status of the Port of New Orleans with respect to wildlife inspection operations.