U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a frequently asked questions document to its website on user fees.
Wireless Spectrum Auctions
The FCC manages and licenses the electromagnetic spectrum used by wireless, broadcast, satellite and other telecommunications services for government and commercial users. This activity includes organizing specific telecommunications modes to only use specific frequencies and maintaining the licensing systems for each frequency such that communications services and devices using different bands receive as little interference as possible.
What are spectrum auctions?
The FCC will periodically hold auctions of unused or newly available spectrum frequencies, in which potential licensees can bid to acquire the rights to use a specific frequency for a specific purpose. As an example, over the last few years the U.S. government has conducted periodic auctions of different GHz bands to support the growth of 5G services.
Latest spectrum auction news
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a revised version of its May 2010 frequently asked questions document regarding containers considered to be instruments of international traffic (IIT) that are imported into the U.S. with residue of bulk products.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing that the following Customs broker licenses, as well as any and all permits, have been cancelled without prejudice:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing that the following Customs Broker license and all associated permits are revoked with prejudice:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources have announced that the pass rate for the October 2010 customs broker license exam was 29%.
In a September 7, 2010 letter, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Bersin responded to an earlier Transportation Intermediaries Association letter on the merits of allowing non-asset based Third Party Logistics Providers (3PLs) into the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program.
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued two notices that either reissue or revoke an ocean transportation intermediary (OTI) license, as follows:
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued a notice that lists those applying for ocean transportation intermediary licenses as a non-vessel-operating common carrier (NVOCC), ocean freight forwarder (FF) or NVOCC/FF OTI, as follows:
In an October 4, 2010 decision, Lizarraga Customs Broker v. U.S. et al., the Court of International Trade entered into record U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s “Confession of Judgment” in favor of Lizarraga Customs Broker, in which CBP conceded to not suspend or deactivate Mr. Lizarraga entry filer code for any past fact or event.
The Court of International Trade has entered U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s “confession of judgment” in favor of Lizarraga Customs Broker, which was filed in response to Lizarraga’s pending motion for a preliminary injunction.