The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General has issued a report containing an independent audit conducted by KPMG LLP that addresses the strengths and weaknesses of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's fiscal year 2007 internal controls.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Revenue Division Bond Team (Bond Team) has posted to its Web site its August 20, 2007 version of its Current Issues which has been updated to add a section on riders and termination requests for all CBP Form 301 continuous bonds.
In the July 12, 2007 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 41, No. 29), CBP published a notice on the termination of 33 drawback rulings.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice on its Web site entitled Notice of Examination: October 2007 Customs Broker Examination, which announces that the next customs broker license exam will be held on Monday, October 1, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site various materials related to presentations made at the June 20-22, 2007 meeting of the Trade Support Network (TSN).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message stating that some filers are erroneously submitting paper documents in support of Remote Location Filing and Electronic Invoice Processing entries, instead of transmitting and processing these entries in a completely electronic environment.
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.