The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of June 1-7:
Brian Feito
Brian Feito is Managing Editor of International Trade Today, Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. A licensed customs broker who spent time at the Department of Commerce calculating antidumping and countervailing duties, Brian covers a wide range of subjects including customs and trade-facing product regulation, the courts, antidumping and countervailing duties and Mexico and the European Union. Brian is a graduate of the University of Florida and George Mason University. He joined the staff of Warren Communications News in 2012.
A recently announced delay in implementation of certain entry types in the Automated Commercial Environment has ratcheted up the pressure on filers and software providers striving to meet CBP’s Nov. 1 deadline. CBP on May 22 issued a CSMS message (here) pushing back deployment in ACE of all entry types that may include quota merchandise from June 27 to Oct. 31. That leaves only one day for live testing of those entry types -- 11 in total, including foreign-trade zone and warehouse entries and withdrawals -- before the Automated Commercial System goes offline and paper becomes the only fallback, said customs brokers and software developers in interviews.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of May 25-31:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of May 18-24:
Some five months out from the Nov. 1 deadline for cargo release in the Automated Commercial Environment, filers and software developers are shifting into overdrive to implement Partner Government Agency (PGA) message set requirements, said customs brokers and programmers in interviews. Given the large volume of imports regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, that agency’s release of its final Supplemental Guide on May 12 marks an important step, followed closely by the draft release of CBP’s ACE Business Rules implementation guide three days later.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of May 11-17:
Electronic filing of certificates of compliance could create a host of data entry issues for customs brokers, making the certificate registry approach contemplated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission an “attractive” option, said Amy Magnus, director-customs and compliance at A.N. Deringer, during a meeting between the agency and a CBP Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations working group set up to address certificate filing.
Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission are not giving into pressure to drop a proposed rule that would make voluntary corrective action plans legally binding. Following criticism of the proposal from congressmen, industry and a former CPSC commissioner, the CPSC on May 12 voted 3-2 along partisan lines to reject an amendment to its midyear operating plan that would have withdrawn the proposed rule. However, CPSC Chairman Elliot Kaye noted that moving forward with a final rule is not one of his top priorities.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of May 4-10:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of April 27 - May 3: