U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) may soon implement "Phase 4", CBP's next step in enforcing mandatory advance electronic information requirements for truck carriers, as required by the Trade Act of 2002.
American Shipper reports that some in the import community are wondering if President Bush's pick of U.S. Secret Service Director W. Ralph Basham to be the agency's next commissioner will predispose the agency to place a higher priority on stricter security measures at the expense of the free flow of trade. (American Shipper, dated 01/31/06, www.americanshipper.com )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that the fourth tranche of low-duty fiscal year (FY) 2006 refined sugar tariff rate quota (TRQ) additional allocation did not oversubscribe at opening moment on January 24, 2006. As a result, all entries presented at opening have been charged and may be released. (See ITT's Online Archives or 01/25/06 news, 06012545, for BP summary of the opening of the fourth tranche.)(QBT-06-511, dated 01/25/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2006/06_511.ctt/06_511.doc.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message which it states updates previous messages on the Period Monthly Statement (PMS) application procedures for non-portal accounts and Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) partners who hold portal accounts.
The following are documents which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.). Updates are listed under "What's New" on its Web site:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted the January 2006 version of its Modernization Monthly newsletter to its Web site. Articles in this issue include (partial list):
The Journal of Commerce reports that CBP officials state that government agencies will begin to use the International Trade Data System (ITDS), which is an integral part of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), in late 2006. The article notes that a prominent would-be ITDS user, the Coast Guard, has begun talking with the ITDS development team. In addition, the article notes that Treasury Department officials state that agencies are beginning to see the value of seeing the data online as it's being collected at the border. (JoC dated 01/02/06, www.joc.com.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted an updated version of its list of answers to questions submitted by the trade community at its November 2005 Trade Symposium which is posted to CBP's Web site.
CBP has issued messages on a number of antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty actions, many of which (marked by an * in the action column) were previously published in the Federal Register by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and summarized in International Trade Today.