In the Sept. 11 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 36), CBP published a proposal to revoke ruling letters concerning steel assembly hardware sets from Vietnam and training pants.
When filing unused merchandise drawback claims, companies can select the unit of measure they want to use for calculating per unit averaging where two units of measure are provided on the entry summary, provided that companies keep two conditions, according to a recent CROSS ruling issued by CBP.
An October strike by members of the International Longshoremen Association at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports could result in “devastating impacts” on the supply chain for weeks, consultants and logistics professionals told International Trade Today.
An effort by CBP and the Transportation Security Administration to improve the monitoring of imported air cargo through modifications in data collection is creating confusion among airforwarders and reportedly causing airlines to think twice about delivering cargo to the U.S. and Canada.
CBP needs to improve its oversight of penalty cases, including more consistent oversight of its Fines, Penalties and Forfeitures field offices, so that CBP is more effective in collecting penalty revenue, DHS' Office of Inspector General recommended in a Sept. 3 report on its audit of CBP.
Digital security cameras mounted as doorbells fall under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule heading governing TV cameras and video camera recorders, according to three separate CBP rulings issued June 21 and publicly released last week.
CBP will delay the scheduled Sept. 28 deployment of automating the $800 de minimis threshold in ACE following feedback from the trade community (see 2407240038), the agency said in a Sept. 3 CSMS message.
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service is unlikely to extend once more the deadline for filing certificates in ACE on all entries of organic products, an official of the program said Aug. 29 during a webinar on the AMS’ national organic program, hosted by the Los Angeles Customs Brokers & Freight Forwarders Association.
Licensed customs brokers should expect to hear soon what the revised continuing education requirements will be to keep their customs broker licenses up to date.
The Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) has ordered the two major Canadian freight railways and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) to undergo binding arbitration over a new labor agreement that would replace the old one that expired in December 2023. A meeting of parties is to take place later this week.