During a February 22, 2008 press conference call, several trade members of the Trade Support Network1 discussed a variety of issues, including an update on the status of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's proposal to have a minimal number of edits and validations in the Automated Commercial Environment system (commonly referred to as "Edit-Lite").2
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site various materials related to presentations made at the February 5-7, 2008 meeting of the Trade Support Network (TSN) held in Dallas, Texas.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a fact sheet on its scheduled fall 2008 introduction of Automated Commercial Environment Rail and Sea electronic manifest (e-Manifest)1 for advance cargo information purposes.
During the February 13, 2008 meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC)1, CBP officials discussed, among things, the 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.
Broker Power is able to provide quota prices (generally twice a month) for a limited number of textile and apparel categories from the People's Republic of China that are subject to "agreed quotas" and publicly traded. (These publicly traded quota prices have been provided by a Hong Kong quota broker.)
According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection guidance document and CBP sources, an Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest update that will give truck carriers and customs brokers the capability to arrive and export in-bonds1 by equipment (trailer/container, etc.) has been delayed to March 20082.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has previously announced that the next customs broker license examination will be held on Monday, April 7, 2008.
On February 11, 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a new means of delivering information on its Automated Commercial Trade Interface Systems, called the Cargo Systems Messaging Service (CSMS), which functions as both a database and as an email list serve.
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection previously issued a general notice announcing that the 2008 annual user fee of $138 assessed for each customs broker permit and national permit held by an individual, partnership, association, or corporation is due by February 15, 2008.