The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report to certain Congressional committees, as required by the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006 (SAFE Port Act), which reviews changes in staffing and other resources devoted to customs revenue functions since the creation of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)1.
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 (CBP) has previously announced that the next Customs Broker License Examination will be held on Monday, April 2, 2007.
In the February 7, 2007 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 41, No. 7), CBP published a general notice on the termination of 103 drawback rulings.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has previously announced that the next Customs Broker License Examination will be held on Monday, April 2, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued CBP Dec. 06-39, which, effective January 19, 2007, adopts as a final rule, with some changes, the interim rule published in the Federal Register on March 7, 2005 to implement the preferential tariff treatment and other customs-related provisions of the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement (US-CFTA).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice on its Web site, entitled Notice of Examination for April 2007, which announces that the next Customs Broker License Examination will be held on Monday, April 2, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued Harmonized System Update No. 0701 to ABI filers stating that CBP has completed its update of the Automated Broker Interface (ABI) records and harmonized records for:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site various materials related to presentations made at the December 11-13, 2006 meeting of the Trade Support Network (TSN).
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has issued a press release announcing that on November 22, 2006, the U.S. and Colombia signed the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA). (International Trade Commission sources have previously stated that the term TPA is essentially interchangeable with the term free trade agreement (FTA).)