U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a fact sheet entitled, "Securing America's Borders, CBP 2007 Fiscal Year in Review," which provides details on the progress CBP made securing U.S. borders in FY 2007 and the challenges it faced. The following are highlights from the fact sheet:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a notice providing details on the Automated Commercial Environment account type for foreign trade zone operators that was created with the deployment of Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that changes are being made for the XR line release output application. CBP states that it would like to implement the changes on December 15, 2007; however, if that date is unacceptable, CBP is asking the trade to contact their client representative.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a notice providing details on the Automated Commercial Environment account type for sureties1 that was created with the deployment Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site an October 2007 interview with CBP Assistant Commissioner for Field Operations, Thomas Winkowski. In this interview, the Assistant Commissioner discussed a variety of issues, including partnerships with the trade community, the in-bond system, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service inspections, etc. The following are highlights of the Assistant Commissioner's comments regarding CBP's in-bond system.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of November 19, 2007. 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 11/19/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
During the November 16, 2007 meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC), members of COAC agreed on a letter which will be sent to CBP Commissioner Basham regarding CBP's Office of International Trade (OT) and its impact on trade one year after it was formed.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a notice providing details on the Automated Commercial Environment account type for service providers that was created with the deployment Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site presentations for sessions that will be held during the upcoming Automated Commercial Environment Exchange VIII conference scheduled for November 27-29, 2007 in San Francisco, CA.
The following were posted to CBP's Web site: