U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its final determination regarding a petition filed pursuant to 19 CFR 177.13 by Yara North America, Inc. to reconcile inconsistent tariff classification decisions by CBP officials at the ports of Long Beach and Baltimore for CN-9 Solution. According to CBP’s final determination, the Port of Los Beach correctly classified the CN-9 solution as a fertilizer.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is allowing an additional 30 days, until January 30, 2012, to comment on its information collection concerning Prior Disclosure. CBP is proposing to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the burden hours or to the information being collected.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is requesting comments by January 30, 2012 on its Simplified Entry information collection (which is part of its information collection request for CBP Forms 3461 and 3461 ALT). CBP is proposing to extend the expiration date of this information collection with a change to the burden hours as a result of the proposed addition of the Simplified Entry Program.
The Port of Long Beach terminals will begin barring the last of the oldest, most polluting drayage trucks from entering their gates on January 1, 2012 as the final part of the Clean Trucks Program. The Port will ban some 280 older container trucks and another 800 older non-container trucks from Port terminals so that all of the 11,000 drayage trucks servicing Port terminals will be 2007 or newer models. All drayage trucks doing business at Port must register under the Clean Trucks Program. Container trucks are inspected and equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. Only trucks meeting the Port’s environmental, safety and security standards get a green light to enter shipping terminals. Non-container trucks receive stickers.
The Government Accountability Office has issued a report evaluating the Department of Homeland Security's Port Security Grant Program (PSGP) used to protect critical maritime infrastructure and the public from terrorist attacks. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which distributes PSGP grant funds, awarded nearly $1.7 billion to port areas through the program from FY 2006-2010. However, GAO found that in order to achieve its purpose, the PSGP's risk model, grant management, and effectiveness measures could be strengthened.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS message #11-000320 to provide the December 2011 Trade Account Owner (TAO) Update. This update features information on (i) Periodic Monthly Statement (PMS) dates for 2012, (ii) an update on the Simplified Entry Test, (iii) instructions for changing the trade account owner, (iv) recent updates for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), and (v) a wrap up of ACE in 2011.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's December 28, 2011 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 1) contains four notices of ruling actions:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a December 19, 2011 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 has also posted a December 12, 2011 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.