U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice on its Web site , entitled Notice of Examination for April 2006, which announces that the next Customs Broker License Examination will be held on Monday, April 3, 2006.

In mid-November 2005, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a notice announcing that the next meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection and Related Functions (COAC) would be held on December 1, 2005 in Washington, DC. (This committee was previously called the "Treasury Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of the U.S. Customs Service.")

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently issued a notice advising Customs brokers that the Triennial Status Report and associated fee of $100 for each license held by a broker whether it may be an individual, partnership, association, or corporation, are due during the month of February 2006 (i.e. by February 28, 2006).

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice to advise Customs brokers that the Triennial Status Report Fee of $100 that is assessed for each license held by a broker whether it may be an individual, partnership, association, or corporation, is due during the month of February 2006 (i.e. by February 28, 2006) along with the corresponding status report.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice announcing that the 2006 annual $125 user fee that is assessed for each Customs broker permit and national permit held by an individual, partnership, association, or corporation is due by January 20, 2006.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) Office of Information and Technology has posted a notice to CBP's Web site containing a list, as of November 15, 2005, of companies/persons offering data processing services to the trade community for the Automated Broker Interface (ABI).

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently issued an interim rule which, effective October 5, 2005, eliminated the textile declaration requirement and newly required the Manufacturer Identification Code (MID) for textile and apparel products from all countries to be constructed from the name and address of the entity performing the origin-conferring operations, etc.

In the matter of U.S. v. Pan Pacific Textile Group et al., the Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled that the principal is responsible for unpaid duties under 19 CFR 1592(d) stemming from fraudulent customs violations by his agent, who was the "importer of record" for certain tracksuits imported from China.

On its Web site, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) provides information on the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) for each of the following types of C-TPAT partners:

House and Senate conferees agreed Fri. to exempt the universal service fund (USF) from Anti-Deficiency Act accounting rules for a year, and to bar the FCC from limiting USF support to primary lines. Senate Commerce Chmn. Stevens (R-Alaska) brokered the USF deal Thurs. night with House Commerce Chmn. Barton (R-Tex.), who wants to overhaul USF. Stevens thought he had sewn up the arrangement, but learned after the Thurs. conferees’ meeting that the primary-line provision wasn’t in the bill. “I didn’t sleep last night because of this amendment,” he told conferees during Fri.’s meeting, arguing passionately that the primary-line provision is essential in rural areas.