The customs broker’s license examination scheduled for April 2013 will be on Wednesday, April 3, said CBP in a notice. The date was rescheduled from the previously announced April 1 date, but CBP didn't say why. The exam typically consists of 80 multiple-choice questions, with a score of 75 percent required to pass. Exam topics usually include: Entry, Classification, Country of Origin, Trade Agreements, Antidumping/Countervailing Duty, Value, Broker Responsibilities, FP&F, Protests, Marking, Prohibited and Restricted Merchandise, Drawback, Intellectual Property Rights, and other subjects pertinent to a broker's duties.
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Timothy Warren is Executive Managing Editor of Communications Daily. He previously led the International Trade Today editorial team from the time it was purchased by Warren Communications News in 2012 through the launch of Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. Tim is a 2005 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and lives in Maryland with his wife and three kids.
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) said in a notice Jan. 23 that it would review “in its entirety” a ruling by one of its administrative law judges that Samsung had violated Section 337 by importing and selling devices that infringe Apple patents, in the latest chapter in the ongoing legal dispute between the two companies over mobile device patents. The ITC case is separate from Apple's successful patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif.; Judge Lucy Koh is still conducting post-verdict hearings in that case. Judge Thomas Pender ruled in October that Samsung had violated one of Apple’s iPhone design patents and three of its software patents. The judge recommended a limited exclusion order barring entry of Samsung's infringing mobile devices, as well as a cease and desist order against Samsung. Apple and Samsung had both asked the ITC to review the ruling, while Google had submitted a public interest statement in the case, the commission said, not mentioning what Google said. The ITC had originally planned to make its final initial determination on the case March 27, but said it will set a new date within 30 days of the notice’s posting.
CBP posted an Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Resource Contact Guide, which lists ACE topics and the appropriate e-mail address or phone number to contact for questions on those topics, as well as hours of operation. CBP also posted information on activating an ACE account (here).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP for Field Operations at the Port of New York/Newark reissued an Informational Pipeline to provide instructions to the importing community on how to obtain relief through the administrative refund process at the time of request for the deletion/cancellation of an entry. On May 5, 2008, the New York Field Office issued Informational Pipeline 08-005 regarding deletion/cancellation procedures for ABI certified entries. A reissue of that pipeline was requested at the JFK Airport quarterly brokers meeting, said CBP.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
Hughes Hubbard added Matthew Nicely as a partner in its International Trade Practice, the firm said. Nicely previously worked as the head of Thompson Hine's International Trade and Customs Practice.
CBP updated its requirements for electronic in-bond movement authorization (1D) freight status notification (FSN) messages that are transmitted to the Air AMS participant in custody of the cargo to include air in-bond, said CBP in a CSMS message.
CBP has posted the Winter 2013 issue of its Frontline magazine, CBP's quarterly magazine on border security.
CBP released its Jan. 23 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 5). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent general notices and Court of International Trade decisions.