On June 28, 2010, the following trade-related bill was introduced:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a detailed press release on the agency’s fourth national Trade Conference for CBP policymakers and field managers that was held in Arlington, VA on June 22-25, 2010. The conference drew nearly 200 participants from throughout the country to exchange ideas and discuss CBP’s new and changing policies.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announcing that the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (COAC) will holding an open meeting on July 15, 2010 from 2:00 -- 3:00 p.m. EST via teleconference to discuss and vote on the 2010 National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection signed a mutual recognition arrangement with the Korean Customs Service on June 25, 2010 at the 115th/116th Session of the World Customs Organization Council in Brussels, Belgium.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that registration is now open for the second annual Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Northern Border Highway Carrier Conference that will be held in Niagara Falls, NY on August 31 -- September 1, 2010.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted answers to questions that were submitted at its December 2009 Trade Symposium. Highlights of CBP’s answers to the questions it received include:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will hold the second annual Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Northern Border Highway Carrier Conference in Niagara Falls, NY on August 31 -- September 1, 2010.
In his first major speech to the trade community on June 7, 2010, recently appointed U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin discussed where he thinks the agency currently is, and where he expects it to be in the future.
On May 19, 2010, the U.S. and Mexico issued a declaration agreeing to take on a number of 21st century border management activities with respect to trade and security:
On May 20, 2010, the House Ways and Means Committee’s Trade Subcommittee held a hearing on Customs Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement. The Customs Commissioner and other government witnesses presented testimony and answered questions. Highlights of what was covered include: