CBP will host a Trade Fair to provide members of the trade community the opportunity to speak one on one with representatives of federal agencies involved with imports and exports, CBP said in a CSMS message. The event will be held Oct. 24 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) building located at 6500 Campus Circle Drive East, Irving TX 75063.
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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.
CBP issued a memorandum on saying the first tranche (period 1) for the fiscal year 2013 specialty sugar tariff rate quota opens Oct. 12, 2011, at 1 p.m. EDT, or its equivalent in other time zones.
CBP Los Angeles scheduled another trade forum to discuss planned updates to CBP's and the Food and Drug Administration's refusal/redelivery process, it said in a public notice. Topics will include FDA exams and entry review, exports and destructions, the new CBP/FDA joint redelivery process, and CBP's refund and cancellation policy, said the notice. Email documents@brokerpower.com for a copy of the public notice.
Consumer Group Continues Push Against 'Beyond the Border,' but USDA says No Reductions in Inspection
The mild reaction of the Obama administration to a wide recall of Canadian beef is related to the planned deregulation of meat inspection at the Canadian border as part of the "Beyond the Border" Initiative, said Food and Water Watch. "With this historic recall and inadequate response from FSIS as a backdrop, it’s unconscionable that the Obama Administration is still moving ahead with plans to implement a pilot program that would eliminate some border inspection activities for meat products imported from Canada," said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of the consumer group. But USDA and the American Meat Institute disagreed with Food and Water Watch's characterization of the initiative. USDA said it is not reducing inspection, and AMI said the new procedures will actually enhance food safety.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Oct. 9 with 293 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 174,341. The most recent ruling is dated 10/02/2012.
The CBP Centers of Excellence and Expertise (CEEs) will serve as a resource of information to everyone in the trade community, from large importers down to customs brokers that aren't frequently interacting with the centers, said CBP officials during a Oct. 11 Webinar. The Webinar was part of an ongoing CBP outreach effort on its update to broker regulations in 19 CFR Part 111, though its focus on the CEEs isn't directly related to the update on broker regulations. The CEEs, which offer industry-dedicated, virtual locations for entry summary review, are currently in a pilot phase
CBP is having trouble emailing export manifest filers because CBP's export manifest email address is being identified as spam, the agency said in a CSMS message. CBP said a trade partner recently turned on the ‘Out-Of-Office’ message for the address that submits export manifests to CBP, causing massive amount of emails to be bounced ‘back-and-forth’, likely resulting in the export_manifest@cbp.dhs.gov mailbox to be designated as a ‘spammer/invalid-sender’ on large email provider hosts on the internet.
CBP issued its Oct. 10 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 42), which contains 4 notices of the following ruling actions:
CBP posted documents on changes to the Customs and Trade Interface Requirements (CATAIR).
New lobbyist registrations on trade issues include: