U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an administrative message that replaces an earlier September 2006 administrative message on the ABI system requirements for the Mexican Cement Import Licensing System.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted to its Web site its quarterly reports on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) entitled Report to Congress on the Automated Commercial Environment. These reports cover the four quarters of calendar year 2006.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued instructions in English and Spanish for brokers, importers, and carriers with Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) portal accounts, that wish to act as third parties on behalf of truck carriers with ACE non-portal accounts, in order to submit their electronic manifest (e-manifest) information via the ACE Secure Data Portal.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice announcing a change in the deployment date for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Entry Summary, Accounts, Revenue (ESAR) A1 release. This release, originally scheduled for May 2007, has been moved to August 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is announcing that beginning March 15, 2007, truck carriers who participate in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)Truck Manifest Test1, that have ACE non-portal accounts, can submit their electronic manifest (e-Manifest) information via the ACE Secure Data Portal using third parties that have ACE portal accounts.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a revised version of its informed compliance publication (ICP) entitled, What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Household Articles of Base Metal.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) 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 ITA also issues other notices which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice to its Web site announcing that due to the extraordinary circumstances regarding the availability and distribution of the 2007 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS), CBP is providing exam applicants with a listing of the chapters from the HTS that will be used in the April 2, 2007 Brokers Exam.
On December 29, 2006, President Bush issued Proclamation 8097 to modify the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule to implement the World Customs Organization-recommended and other changes to the HTS (Annex I); to modify certain free trade agreement's (FTA's) and trade preference program's previously proclaimed staged duty rate reductions1 for the WCO-recommended changes (Annex II); and to adjust the U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) rules of origin2 in HTS General Note 28 for the WCO-recommended changes (Annex III).
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) 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 ITA also issues other notices which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance.