U.S. Customs and Border and Border Protection has posted an additional chapter and two appendices to its "ACE ABI CATAIR" document that it is building to replace the current Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of March 10, 2008. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 03/10/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
The following were posted to CBP's Web site:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the following 2008 new/modified ACE EDI messages for Release 4 Truck Manifest:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE on the Road" event schedule, which includes the following:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a press release announcing the creation of a new Import Surveillance Division at the CPSC as part of its new import strategy and to increase CPSC presence at the ports.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing that it has approved the design for Automated Commercial Environment air electronic manifest (ACE e-Manifest: Air) for advance cargo information purposes, making way for development to begin.
The World Shipping Council (WSC) has submitted 26 pages of comments to U.S. Customs and Border Protection on its proposed rule to amend 19 CFR to require Security Filing (SF) information from importers and additional information from carriers (10+2) for vessel (maritime) cargo before it is brought into the U.S.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI Cargo Systems Messaging Service (CSMS) message announcing the creation of a new document named "ACE ABI CATAIR," which will include all of the Automated Broker Interface transactions required for filing entry summaries in the Automated Commercial Environment.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice announcing that CBP is preparing a comprehensive system testing plan designed to provide insights into the operational performance of the new Automated Commercial Environment sea and rail manifest (ACE e-Manifest: Sea and Rail1) processing for advance cargo information purposes before it is deployed to U.S. ports of entry in fall 2008.