CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP is "experiencing an outage for new ACE applications to include Cargo Release, Entry summary" and e214 foreign-trade zones admissions, it said in a Dec. 22 CSMS message. Those problems are internal to CBP and the electronic data interchange "is working and the trade can send and receive transactions," CBP said in a subsequent CSMS message.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued filing instructions in a CSMS message for goods eligible for the Generalized System of Preferences in the event the GSP program expires at the end of the year. As in previous GSP lapses (see 13071514), filers would continue to use the GSP special program indicator to flag their entries, but would have to pay duties at the normal, non-preferential rate for any imports with a time of entry during the lapse. GSP is currently set to expire Dec. 31 if the program isn’t extended by Congress. "In the event of a lapse and until further notice, importers are strongly encouraged to continue to flag otherwise GSP-eligible importations with the SPI 'A' pay Normal Trade Relations (column 1) duty rates," CBP said. "Importers may not file SPI 'A' without duties."
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The Treasury Department published its fall 2017 regulatory agenda for CBP. The agenda doesn't include any new rulemakings involving trade. Previously listed rulemakings, including a proposal to update to the (a)(1)(A) list of records required for the entry of merchandise and changes to drawback regulations, continue to be on the agenda. The Department of Homeland Security also issued its regulatory agenda (see 1712150011).
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The National Marine Fisheries Service will allow a period of “informed compliance” after compliance with new ACE filing requirements for certain species under the Seafood Import Monitoring Program takes effect Jan. 1, CBP said in a CSMS message. Entries rejected because of missing or incorrect SIMP data that cannot be resolved in a “timely manner” may be refiled under the same entry without the SIMP message set, the agency said. The entries will be released with a warning message as long as all other NMFS filing requirements are met, and the filer will be required to submit the correct SIMP information “as soon as possible.” Entries that are not corrected “in a timely manner” will be “targeted with a full chain of custody audit,” NMFS said.