The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a guidance document entitled, Prior Notice of Imported Food Contingency Plan for System Outages, which represents the FDA's and U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) current thinking on submission options for prior notice (PN) of imported food in the event of system outages affecting the applicable FDA and CBP program systems.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice informing truck carriers of the compliance dates for transmitting advance electronic information to CBP for cargo they are bringing into the U.S., as mandated by the Trade Act of 2002 and a December 5, 2003 final rule.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film, sheet, and strip from Taiwan for the review period of December 21, 2001 through June 30, 2003.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message announcing that as of August 16, 2004, there was a reorganization of commodity specialist teams at JFK Airport. Details of the reorganization, including new phone numbers for al the teams, are provided in JFK Informational Pipeline No. 04-018, copies of which have already been boxed to brokers as of August 13, 2004. (Administrative message dated 08/13/04, availablefromBP by emailing documents@brokerpower.com.)