U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of October 22, 2007. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 10/22/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice to its Web site and issued a press release announcing that the Automated Commercial Environment application can now be completed, signed digitally, and emailed directly to CBP.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a summary of changes to the Automated Export System Trade Interface Requirements (AESTIR) to its Web site, indicating that Version 1.0 was changed on October 10, 2007 as follows:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a general notice announcing CBP's plan to conduct a new National Customs Automation Program (NCAP) test concerning Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Entry Summary, Accounts and Revenue (ESAR) capabilities, the first aspect of which is ESAR A1.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued two ABI administrative messages1 providing answers to frequently asked questions regarding what brokers can and cannot do via the Automated Commercial Environment portal with the CBP Form 5106 (importer ID input record add/update) for either U.S. or non-resident importers.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a notice announcing the opening of the tariff rate quota on mixes and doughs as provided for in HTS Chapter 19, Additional U.S. Note 3 for fiscal year 2008.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site presentations for sessions that will be held during the upcoming Automated Commercial Environment Exchange VII conference scheduled for October 15-17, 2007 in Atlanta, GA.
On October 4, 2007, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee held a hearing entitled "Security of Our Nation's Seaports."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection previously posted to its Web site a notice announcing the phased enforcement of mandatory Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes at all land border ports in New Hampshire and Vermont as well as the remaining land border ports in North Dakota - St. John, Fortuna, Ambrose, Carbury, Noonan, Dunseith, Sherwood, Antler, Northgate, Westhope, and Portal1, beginning July 12, 2007.
The following have recently been posted to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol's Web site: