U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is hosting a Webinar on June 7th at 3:00 PM on updating the broker regulations (19 CFR Part 111). This is the first of several webinars slated for the summer of 2012 as part of CBP's Role of the Broker Initiative. CBP is seeking comment and input on all facets of the broker regulations from the widest possible audience, it said. Especially important is feedback from small- and medium-sized enterprises, said CBP.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a record of changes since May 7 to the ACE ABI CATAIR (Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements). The change log is (here). The full CATAIR is (here).
CBP posted updated versions of certain of its Excel workbooks containing historical information and fill rates for TRQs and TPLs. The updated versions are (here).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
This summary report highlights the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s May 29 “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” It also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly May 29, 2012 “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.”1
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reminded ACE users of a coming outage in a CSMS message. CBP said due to a major hardware upgrade, the ACE certification environment will be unavailable beginning June 1, 2012 at 15:00 EDT through June 3, 2012 at 23:59 EDT. This upgrade won't impact ACE Production, said CBP.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued its May 30 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 23), which contains 2 notices of ruling actions. The ruling actions are as follows:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of May 29.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a May 21 version of its CF 1400 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Entrances) electronic query report of the Vessel Management System (VMS), in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by entrances. CBP also posted a version of its CF 1401 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Clearances) electronic query report of the VMS, in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by clearances.