Trade associations such as the National Association of Manufacturers and U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and non-governmental organizations such as the Sierra Club and Rainforest Action Network (47 groups in all) have issued a consensus statement recommending a number of changes to the way the Lacey Act Declaration is implemented and administered.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its mitigation guidelines for the assessment and cancellation of claims for liquidated damages for failure to comply with the requirements of the 10 2 interim final rule.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its mitigation guidelines for the assessment and cancellation of claims for liquidated damages for failure to comply with the requirements of the 10 2 interim final rule.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement reports that its criminal arrests on the Southwest Border have increased more than 17 percent through the first three quarters of Fiscal Year (FY) 2009, compared to the same period in FY 2008. In the nine months from Oct. 1, 2008 through June 29, 2009, ICE made 6,834 criminal arrests compared with 5,802 arrests during the same period last year. (News Release, dated 07/14/09, available at http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0907/090714washington.htm)
The Director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Secure Freight Initiative, Richard DiNucci, provided an update on 10+2 during the July 7, 2009 National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America's Importer Security Filing webinar.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's New York/Newark Area Port has issued an Informational Pipeline stating that it will give Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism importers the benefit of expeditious completion of CBP-mandated cargo examinations.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that Japan and the U.S. signed a mutual recognition arrangement that recognizes compatibility between the U.S.' Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism and Japan's Partners Authorized Economic Operators cargo security programs.
The Port of New York/Newark has issued an Informational Pipeline stating that containers consigned to a C-TPAT importer that are designated for drayage to a Centralized Examination Station (CES) for a CBP Enforcement, Trade, or Agriculture examination, will clearly be designated as "C-TPAT Priority," on the Permit to Transfer or CF3461 document faxed to the CES facility. The CES facility will in turn, dray to their facility, and present for examination, the C-TPAT Priority cargo before non-C-TPAT designated containerized cargo. (See future issue of ITT for details.) (Pipeline 09-016-NWK is available via email by sending a request to documents@brokerpower.com)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing that the next customs broker license exam will be held on Monday, October 5, 2009.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted videos from its 2009 Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism supply chain security seminar for C-TPAT certified partners that was held on April 1-3, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana.