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CBP to Begin New IPR Enforcement Effort for Express Carriers, COAC Posts Import Processing Map
October 3, 2014 by Tim Warren|Top News

CBP will take up an Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection (COAC) recommendation hoped to simplify and improve intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement for the express consignment industry, the agency said in a document posted for the Oct. 7 meeting (here). CBP will provide a "proof of concept" to the UPS Louisville Port on Oct. 6, it said. "Through this process, CBP will offer the importer and U.S. ultimate consignee an abandonment option on detention notices for shipments detained by CBP on suspicion of trademark or copyright violations," said CBP's report on the IPR working group. "This change is expected to have a significant, yet positive impact on resources, as the express environment now accounts for more than half of all intellectual property rights seizures."

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
CBP ISF Enforcement Stance Increasingly Clear as Ports Release Protocol
October 2, 2014 by Tim Warren|Top News

CBP enforcement procedure for Importer Security Filing continues to solidify as a number of major ports have outlined their positions for dealing with ISF violators, said Craig Clark, who manages the ISF program at CBP, during an Oct. 1 webinar. CBP headquarters revised its take on ISF enforcement in May, advising the ports to focus on the more egregious ISF violators (see 14052106) and "significantly late" filing. While CBP left the definition of what is significantly late "intentionally fuzzy" to allow the ports to develop their own definition to reflect differences at the port level, it's safe to consider significantly late as "having provided that ISF at such a time that you negatively impacted CBP's ability to target that cargo," he said.

Topics:CBP CROSS Rulings
Industry Urges CPSC to Align Importer Certificate Filing With Current Entry Requirements
September 30, 2014 by Brian Feito|Top News

The Consumer Product Safety Commission should stick to its current system of requiring importers to provide certificates of compliance on an “on-demand” basis, industry representatives told CPSC staff at a workshop on Sept. 18. But should CPSC move forward with requiring importers to file certificates of compliance at time of entry, as proposed in May 2013 (see 13051018), the agency must ensure the program is fully integrated into existing supply chain processes and the Automated Commercial Environment, said several industry groups. CPSC must also revise its definition of importer of record to exclude customs brokers, others said. The commission should also work closely with CBP and the trade community to ensure it comes up with a rule that’s workable for both CPSC and industry, said industry representatives.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
CBP Gives Guidance on Single Entry Filing for Multiple Rail Cars on Single Train
September 22, 2014 by Tim Warren|Customs

CBP recently provided guidance to rail carriers on single entry filing for multiple rail cars that enter the U.S. on a single train, CBP said in a CSMS message. The regulations in 19 CFR 141.51 requires that "“all merchandise arriving on one conveyance and consigned to one consignee must be included on one entry." According to CBP, the consignee can be "either nominal or ultimate" and "a single train and all its associated cars, containers, or other shipping devices filed using one manifest" in ACE is considered a single conveyance. The entry may include multiple HTS numbers, multiple manufacture identification numbers and multiple countries of origin, it said. To file a single entry for multiple cars, the train does not have to be a unit train, which is "a single conveyance where all of the cargo on the train is the same, bound for the same destination," the agency said. "Multi-Modal Manifest in ACE (ACE M1) is designed to allow a single entry to be filed for multiple rail cars, containers, or other shipping devices regardless of what other commodities and/or bills may be manifested and entered."