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 has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that on January 26, 2008, a programming enhancement is scheduled to go to production that will extend to truck carriers and brokers the capability to arrive and export in-bonds by container/equipment.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has 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.
The U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel has issued a Textile Development Memo on the House of Representatives' passage of H.R. 3890, the Block Burmese JADE (Junta's Anti-Democratic Efforts) Act of 2007 on December 11, 2007. H.R. 3890 would impose import sanctions on certain Burmese gemstones, revoke the termination of Generalized System of Preferences duty-free benefits for certain Indian and Thai gold jewelry, etc. See future issue of ITT for additional details on H.R. 3890.(USA-ITA TDM dated 12/12/07, www.usaita.com.)
The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.):
eTrucker reports that the U.S. Supreme Court let stand the Washington Supreme Court ruling related to overtime pay for truckers, declaring that truck drivers are entitled to overtime pay beyond 40 hours regardless of how much of their driving time took place in that state. (etrucker, available at http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=64890)
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.
The Court of International Trade remanded Sherri N. Boynton v. U.S. to the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to review and determine an appropriate penalty based on the Court's findings as to the charges against Boynton that it had determined to be violations of Customs rules and regulations.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing recent changes to the 2007 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HS Update No. 0708), which include the following:
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: