RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- CBP is "looking at better ways" to address concerns about what brokers are supposed to do to vet their customers for potential trafficking in fentanyl, meth and other illegal drugs, said Rosa Hernandez, CBP San Diego Area Port director.
Rock-it Global acquired Detroit-based Dell Will Customs Brokers, it said in a blog post on its website. The acquisition of Dell Will, which “primarily serves the motorsports and automotive manufacturing industries,” will “add to Rock-it Global’s existing customs brokerage services for the music touring, theatre, live events, sports, motorsports, and trade show verticals,” Rock-it said.
The Census Bureau should remove the state of origin data element in the Automated Export System and instead direct state governments and other partner agencies to use the state reported in the address of the U.S. Principal Party in Interest, the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America said in comments to the agency this month. NCBFAA said a separate data field for the data element is “unnecessary” because Census’ Foreign Trade Regulations already require that the originating state be reported in the USPPI address data field.
A House subcommittee hearing on the government's implementation of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act zoomed in on de minimis shipments, low incidence of cotton isotopic testing and the slow pace of adding businesses to the UFLPA Entity List, which captures companies that accept labor transfers outside of Xinjiang.
Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., the lead sponsor of the Customs Business Fairness Act, said that although the Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations bill to which it has been attached (see 2309060049) has not come out of committee, he still thinks language protecting customs brokers when their clients declare bankruptcy could get attached to funding bills in coming months.
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Certain logistics companies and other parties that were previously eligible to be importers of record when shipping into Japan may no longer qualify as an IOR after a recent clarification by Japan’s customs authority, DLA Piper said in a client alert last week. The firm said it “may be worth reviewing the existing arrangements used for exporting goods to Japan to confirm who” must pay the Japanese consumption tax, which is done by the IOR, and who will be entitled to claim tax credit for that paid tax.
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) ended its 100% truck inspections at midnight Oct. 13 for "certain ports of entry" on the southern border, the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America said in an Oct. 16 email. The inspections affected the "Laredo-Colombia Solidarity Bridge, as well as the ports of Ysleta and Marcelino Serna, and the Bridge of the Americas." The inspections began Oct. 12 (see 2310120058). The inspections also included the Tornillo Port (see 2310130059).
The Texas Department of Public Safety has begun truck inspections at its facility outside of the Laredo-Colombia Solidarity Bridge in Laredo, Texas, according to a CBP email released by the Laredo Licensed U.S. Customs Brokers Association. CBP said the inspections are expected to remain in place until further notice and delays are expected, according to the LLUSCBA.
California Assemblymember Jim Patterson (R) will try again next session on a vetoed bill that would have expanded eligibility for federal broadband grants administered by the California Public Utilities Commission, a Patterson spokesperson told us Wednesday. Wireless industry groups lamented Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Sunday veto of AB-1065, though they applauded the Democrat for signing AB-965, a bill meant to streamline the broadband permitting process.