U.S. Customs and Border Protection has made available through a recent Webinar1 a March 17, 2009 PowerPoint presentation containing updated information on the Lacey Act Amendments declaration requirement for imported plant and plant products.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will automate versions of the following most commonly used CBP forms with the deployment of ESAR A2.2 (the Initial Entry Summary Types release)1, which is expected in spring 2009:
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) and tariff preference level (TPL) commodity report as of March 16, 2009. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (Weekly commodity report available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing the expected implementation date for two rules in the Batch & Block Control Chapter of the ACE ABI CATAIR1 that will need to be adhered to for all messages for six ABI application identifiers, or fatal errors will result.
CBP has posted the statement of Salvador Nieto, CBP Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Intelligence and Operations Coordination, before the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Border, Maritime and Global Counterterrorism. Nieto testified on the progress and future state of CBP. (Statement, dated 03/12/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/congressional_test/nieto_state_cbp.xml)
CBP has issued a CSMS message announcing that it has resolved the problem where trade users were experiencing slow response and errors when creating and submitting e-Manifests. This issue only impacted the ACE Portal. E-manifest could still be submitted via EDI. (CSMS messages, dated 03/12/09, hyperlinked, 09-000124 and 09-000122)
CBP has posted the testimony of Acting Commission Ahern on the Secure Border Initiative before the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Homeland Security. (Testimony, given 03/10/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/congressional_test/ahern_sbi.xml)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a presentation providing an update on ACE ESAR A2.2 (the Initial Entry Summary Types release) and A2.3.1a (the Antidumping/Countervailing Duty (AD/CVD) release) that was given at the March 3-4, 2009 Trade Support Network meeting.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently posted to its Web site a frequently asked question (FAQ) document regarding its interim final rule that amended 19 CFR effective January 26, 2009, to require Security Filing (SF) information from importers and additional information from carriers (10+2) for vessel (maritime) cargo before it is brought into the U.S.
CBP has posted a presentation providing an update on ESAR A2.2 (the Initial Entry Summary Types release) and A2.3.1 (the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS), Antidumping/Countervailing Duty (AD/CVD) release) that was given at the March 3-4, 2009 Trade Support Network meeting. (See ITT's Online Archives or 03/04/09 news, 09030425 4, for BP summary of other documents from the March TSN meeting.) (See future issue of ITT for details.) (Presentation, posted 03/06/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/automated/modernization/trade_support_network/session_highlights/march_2009_tsn/esar_update.ctt/esar_update.pdf)