At the Automated Commercial Environment Exchange VI conference held July 30-August 1, 2007 in Brooklyn, NY, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials discussed the deployment of ACE Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1, which is currently scheduled to be deployed on August 25, 20071.
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 issued an August 2007 version of its informed compliance publication entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has updated its Web-based training (WBT) for the Automated Commercial Environment to include a course, entitled "Enhanced ACE Accounts and Master Data (A1)," on the new functionality that will be provided in the ACE Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1 release.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice on its Web site entitled Notice of Examination: October 2007 Customs Broker Examination, which announces that the next customs broker license exam will be held on Monday, October 1, 2007.
In April 2007 it was reported that U.S. Customs and Border Protection was developing procedures to give Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) members an additional benefit designed to reduce container demurrage.
In U.S. v. UPS Customhouse Brokerage, Inc.,the Court of International Trade agreed with UPS that the facts presented by Customs were not sufficient to grant summary judgment with respect to penalties imposed concerning certain alleged tariff misclassifications by UPS. As a result, the case must go to trial.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that the deployment of ACE Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue A1 has been delayed until August 25, 2007.
At the Automated Commercial Environment Exchange V conference held June 4-6, 2007 in Buffalo, NY, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials discussed the deployment of ACE Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue Release A1, which is currently scheduled for August 11, 2007.
American Shipper reports that U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Census Bureau have "gone back to the meeting table" in an effort to finalize the mandatory Automated Export System filing rules. Once changes are agreed to, CBP and Census will have to reissue a new proposed rule for mandatory AES with all new deadlines for comments and final implementation. (American Shipper, February 2007, www.americanshipper.com)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an informed compliance publication entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Determining the Acceptability of Transaction Value for Related Party Transactions.