CBP has posted a memorandum announcing that the first opening of the recently increased global refined sugar tariff rate quota that is being reallocated from Mexico oversubscribed at opening. The pro rata percentage is 82.24822% or 0.8224822.
CBP has posted an updated version of its "ACE on the Road" event schedule, which includes the following event:
CBP has posted a memorandum regarding the re-allocation of Mexico's portion of the recently increased fiscal year 2008 tariff rate quota for refined sugar to the global refined sugar TRQ. The re-allocation will be administered on a first-come, first-served basis, in five separate openings, beginning with an allocation of 28,278,000 kg. The first opening was on October 30, 2008. The remaining allocations will consist of 10,000,000 kg each, which CBP will announce in subsequent notices. (See ITT's Online Archives or 10/31/08 news, 08103110, for most recent BP summary on the re-allocation.) (QBT-08-536, dated 10/30/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2008/qbt_08_536.ctt/qbt_08_536.pdf)
During the keynote address at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's 2008 Trade Symposium, CBP Commissioner Basham discussed a variety of trade issues, highlights of which include:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE Workplan Schedule," which lists the changes and/or fixes to the Automated Commercial Environment (and other systems it interfaces with) scheduled for deployment from September 6 through November 2008.
CBP has posted the following presentations for the 2008 Trade Symposium, which will be held on October 29-31, 2008 in Washington, DC:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a new Air In-Bond Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) chapter to its Web site.
CBP has issued a news release announcing that, in conjunction with the Canadian Border Services Agency, it is informing the public that the Border Inspection Stations at Churubusco, New York-Franklin Center, Quebec and Cannons Corners, New York-Cannons Corners, Quebec, will revise their hours of operation in accordance with the winter schedule. Effective November 1, 2008, the new business hours of operation at the aforementioned facilities will be 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., until April 30, 2009. (News release, dated 10/20/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/10202008_6.xml)
CBP has posted an alert providing a port status update in the wake of Hurricane Ike. According to CBP, as of 12:00 p.m. EDT on October 16, 2008, the Galveston Seaport is still closed. (Alert available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/alerts/port_conditions/port_conditions_ike.xml)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a general notice containing guidelines for the assessment of claims for liquidated damages and the mitigation of those claims, when participants fail to pay or untimely pay estimated duties and fees under the NCAP test1 for the Periodic Monthly Statement2 payment process.