The Secretary General of the Secretariat for Economic Integration in Central America (SIECA) and the Secretary General of the World Customs Organization, signed an MOU in Guatemala on May 25, 2010 on Customs modernization through the adoption and implementation of WCO instruments and tools. SIECA is composed of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
The Asian Development Bank and World Customs Organization have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the strategic partnership between their two organizations to facilitate cooperation more closely in areas relating to Customs modernization and reform, capacity building, and research and analysis. (Press release, dated 05/04/10, available at http://www.wcoomd.org/press/?v=1&lid=1&cid=7&id=209)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice providing an overview of its Trade Compliance Measurement (TCM)1 program, which CBP has relied on to provide an objective status of trade compliance and certain CBP controls since 1995.
Canada and India have signed two Memorandums of Understanding: (i) a MOU to launch a joint study group to formulate the parameters of a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA); and (ii) a MOU on Energy Cooperation. (Notice, dated 11/17/09, available at http://news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do;jsessionid=ac1b105330d85644cc998b534d26a1cb804fd4c3f8a3.e38RbhaLb3qNe38TaxuMa30Sai0?crtr.sj1D=&mthd=tp&crtr.mnthndVl=&nid=496789&crtr.dpt1D=&crtr.tp1D=1&crtr.lc1D=&crtr.yrStrtVl=&crtr.kw=&crtr.dyStrtVl=&crtr.aud1D=&crtr)
Forty trade groups1 have signed a letter urging Congress to request that U.S. Customs and Border Protection conduct a prototype program on its "10+2" rulemaking prior to the issuance of a final rule.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is announcing that USDA has authorized CBP to combine the Specialty Sugar tariff rate quotas (TRQs) for periods 5 and 6 into one limit as period 5 opened on August 17, 2006 and has not filled, and period 6 opened on August 31, 2006 and did not oversubscribe at opening moment. This change is effective immediately. A specialty sugar certificate is still required for this now combined TRQ. (QBT-06-546, dated 09/01/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2006/06_546.ctt/06_546.doc )
On August 17, 2006, President Bush signed into law H.R. 4, the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (Public Law (P.L.) 109-280).
The House Ways and Means Committee's Trade Subcommittee has issued an advisory announcing that it will be holding a hearing on July 25, 2006 on budget authorizations for fiscal year (FY) 2007 and 2008 for the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS') U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and on other Customs issues.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted to its Web site its quarterly report on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) entitled Report to Congress: the Automated Commercial Environment. This report is dated March 31, 2004 and covers the period from January 1, 2004 through March 31, 2004.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a notice announcing that, along with the Department of the Treasury, it is soliciting applications for membership on the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection and Related Functions (COAC), announcing the criteria and procedures for selecting members, and renewing COAC's charter for a ninth two-year term.