U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a document containing information on the Pre-Arrival Processing System (PAPS) for inbound trucks to its Web page on the Trade Act of 2002 - Advance Electronic Information.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message addressed to remote location filers, in order to clarify two previously issued messages regarding procedures for preparing invoices under the electronic invoice program (EIP), and another previously issued message on remote location filing (RLF) entry and statement procedures.

The President of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) offered ideas in a press conference to "break the jam and get the cargo moving" in the seriously congested ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, including the Pacific Maritime Association's (PMA) hiring of more casual workers, the use of container gangs, moving to 24-hour gates to expedite the flow of containers, etc., adding that union workers were not going to pay the price of increased accidents by working two shifts back-to-back. (ShippersNewsWire@americanshipper.com, dated 10/22/04)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a notice regarding the misuse of licenses and filer codes that was previously issued on October 6, 2004 as an ABI administrative message. (See ITT's Online Archives or 10/08/04 news, 04100805, for BP summary of CBP's ABI administrative message on this issue.)(CBP notice available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/broker_management/misuse_licences.ctt/misuse_licences.doc.)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a memorandum to its Field Operations Directors stating that CBP import specialists have been directed to review entries of textile articles that may be subject to China safeguard quotas (currently categories 222, 349/649, and 350/650).

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message stating that it has created "final draft" versions of updated CBP Form 7501 (Entry Summary) and CBP Form 7501A (Entry Summary Continuation Sheet).

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has announced that it will hold a meeting on October 27, 2004 in Washington, DC in order to consider the following:

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued a news release announcing that on September 21, 2004, it held the first in what would be a series of briefings with shipping industry representatives to develop a greater awareness and understanding of the current issues and concerns affecting the U.S. international liner shipping industry.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently issued a set of amendments (dated September 16, 2004)¹ to the January 30, 2004 version of its instructions on the filing and substantiation of claims for preferential tariff treatment under the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (SFTA, or SGFTA).

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has issued a final rule to add a new Subpart A to 7 CFR Part 1206 in order to establish the Mango Promotion, Research, and Information Order (Order). AMS states that the purpose of this program is to maintain, expand, and develop domestic markets for fresh mangoes.