Miscellaneous CBP Releases
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
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- ACE Certification standard invasive maintenance window, Sept. 17, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET (here).
- The Customs Broker Permit User Fee will change from $180.57 to $185.38, effective Oct. 1, to accommodate changes in the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) for FY 2026 (here).
- An interim final rule has amended CBP regulations so that a tonnage year, for purposes of calculating tonnage taxes for a vessel, is aligned with the fiscal year of the federal government, according to a Federal Register notice. This rule also permits CBP to issue a single electronic receipt for the payment of tonnage taxes and light money (here).
- A Government Accountability Office report determined that CBP's plans to deploy additional X-ray systems for all vehicles crossing the border exclude nine major crossings that account for nearly 40% of passenger vehicle traffic at the southwest border. In addition, CBP hasn't defined key performance measures it needs to evaluate the new scanning systems, the report said. The report recommends that CBP clearly define its performance measures and determine how to include all southwest land border crossings in its deployment plans (here).
- CBP officials at the World Trade Bridge in Laredo, Texas, on Sept. 9 seized 733 packages containing over 1,790 pounds of alleged methamphetamine in a shipment of frozen mangoes. The tractor-trailer hauling the shipment was flagged for secondary inspection, CBP said. The methamphetamine has an estimated street value of $16 million (here).
- CBP said it recently discovered and detained several international food shipping containers at several U.S. ports that contained unusual levels of cesium-137. The discovery prompted the FDA to issue a food safety alert on certain frozen shrimp products (see 2509020040). Cs-137, a radioisotope of cesium that is man-made through nuclear reactions, is used worldwide in industrial, medical, and research applications, CBP said. Trace amounts of Cs-137 can be found in the environment, including soil, food, and air (here).