CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP announced the availability for testing of several specific types of “dummy” entry summaries in the ACE certification environment for new drawback procedures under the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, in a Jan. 18 CSMS message. The entry summaries, prepared by members of the trade community, “should be used as the underlying imports on your drawback claim,” CBP said. “These entries have been loaded in addition to the original entry submitted to the certification environment.” Entry types covered by the dummy summaries include “air certification,” “bed-in-a-bag,” “compound duty,” “generic for unused or manufacturing,” “petroleum derivatives,” “Puerto Rico,” “sought element” and “vessel.” “Each filer will initially be given a maximum of 25 entries for use for a specific entry type requested,” CBP said.
CBP is currently awaiting guidance from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) before it can implement recent excise tax cuts for beer, wine and distilled spirits that took effect Jan. 1, CBP officials said on their biweekly ACE call Jan. 18. CBP still hasn’t made any updates to tax rates in the Automated Broker Interface to reflect the changes, enacted as part of broader tax legislation at the end of 2017 (see 1712220024).
CBP revenue collections will be among the Department of Homeland Security operations that will be exempt from an all-out agency stoppage in the event of a government shutdown, according to a Jan. 19 detailed contingency plan issued by DHS. Some 54,000 of the 59,000 CBP employees will be "exempt and estimated to be retained during a lapse in appropriations," DHS said. "These employees are exempt since they are Presidential appointees, law enforcement officers, funded by other than annual appropriations, or necessary for the protection of life and property." Government funding will stop after Jan. 19 unless legislators can reach a deal for a continuing resolution.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued a pair Federal Register notices on its previously announced Feb. 24 deadline for drawback and reconciliation in ACE. On that date, drawback and reconciliation in the legacy Automated Commercial System will be decommissioned. “All reconciliation entries” on or after Feb. 24 “must be filed in ACE regardless of whether the underlying entry was filed in ACS or ACE and regardless of whether it is a replacement, substitution or follow-up to a reconciliation entry originally filed in ACS,” CBP said. ACE will also become the only authorized system for drawback entries beginning Feb. 24, the agency said.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing new regulations on the requirements and procedures of its planned Commerce Trusted Trader Program (CTTP) for high-risk seafood imports. Under the proposed rule, participating importers would have to maintain an “internal control system” of product tracing and verification and submit to annual third-party audits. In return, the importer would benefit from reduced entry filing requirements under the NMFS Seafood Import Monitoring Program, which took effect Jan. 1.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: