U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a document listing the questions and answers from the importer and broker session of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Exchange II Conference that was held from October 30-November 2, 2006 in Tucson, Arizona.

CBP has posted to its Web site a notice announcing the 2007 tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for the exported products provided for under the U.S. Jordan FTA in HTS Chapter 99, Subchapter IX, Notes 3, 4, 5, and 6 listed below:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a "strawman proposal"¹ entitled "CBP Proposal for Advance Trade Data Elements", in order to facilitate its development of regulations to collect 10 additional commercial shipping data elements from importers or their agents and 2 additional data sets from ocean carriers. CBP's proposal is commonly referred to as ten plus two (10+2).

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site the agenda for the CBP Trade Symposium 2006 which will be held on December 13 - 15, 2006 in Washington, DC.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a list of questions and answers from the importer and broker session of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Exchange II Conference.

CBP has issued an ABI administrative message stating that on December 8, 2006 the port of Chicago will be moving to the Rosemont, Illinois facility. Due to the move, people should not to deliver any duty payments or customs paperwork to the port of Chicago office. As a result, December 8, 2006 will be considered a snow day. CBP is extending one additional day without penalty for the filing and payment of entry summaries due on that day. (CBP Adm: 06-1204, dated 12/05/06, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2006/2006-1204.ADM)

CBP has posted to its Web site a notice announcing that the 2007 tariff-rate quota (TRQ) on mandarin oranges (satsumas) in airtight containers will open on Tuesday, January 2, 2007 at 12 p.m. EST, or its equivalent in other time zones with a low-duty quantity of 40,000,000 kg. (See CBP's notice for list of applicable HTS numbers.) (QBT-06-579, dated 11/28/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2006/06_579.ctt/06_579.doc)

The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.). Updates are listed under "What's New" on its Web site:

Shippers' NewsWire reports that on December 1, 2006, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is scheduled to electronically distribute to thousands of companies a survey on the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT). The survey seeks to quantify the voluntary program's return on investment and measure its performance. (American Shipper Pub 11/27/06, www.americanshipper.com)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a document announcing that effective immediately, carriers who elect to use Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) e-Manifest to transmit in-bond movements to CBP will not be required to provide a paper CBP Form 7512 at the time of arrival into the U.S. or upon arrival at the destination port, if certain information is provided on the e-Manifest cover sheet, as described below.