U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site its answers to questions submitted by the trade community at its November 2005 Trade Symposium.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site its answers to questions submitted by the trade community at its November 2005 Trade Symposium.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 which contains certain performance and financial data concerning CBP's progress in achieving, among other things, the six strategic goals that are set forth in CBP's Strategic Plan for FY 2005 -2010.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a notice announcing that the USTR has provided additional country-by-country allocations of the in-quota "low duty" quantity of the tariff-rate quota (TRQ) on raw cane sugar as provided for in HTS Chapter 17, Additional U.S. Note (AUSN) 5 for the period October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2006.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted new information to its Web site on its series of 2006 Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Enrollment Seminars for the Mexican and Canadian Highway Carrier and Manufacturing sectors of C-TPAT.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site notes from the Trade Support Network's Plenary Session that was held on September 26-29, 2005.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued an ABI administrative message (Adm: 05-1438) announcing that on December 19, 2005, the interface between CBP's Automated Commercial System (ACS) and the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Operational and Administrative System for Import Support (OASIS) was down. Due to that communication problem, CBP stated that prior notice (PN) contingency scenario 1 was in effect. (See message for procedures under contingency scenario 1.)
According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) press release, the port of Lisbon, Portugal became the 42nd Container Security Initiative (CSI) port to target and pre-screen maritime cargo containers destined for U.S. ports on December 14, 2005.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has published a General Notice in the December 7, 2005 Customs Bulletin (Volume 39, No. 50) entitled: "Guidelines for the Assessment and Mitigation of Penalties for Failure to Comply with the Electronic Passenger and Crew Manifest Requirements for Vessel and Aircraft."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of December 12, 2005. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (CFTA) tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 12/12/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)