The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its Northern Border Strategy (NBS), described as" the first unified strategy to guide the Department’s policies and operations along the U.S.-Canada border." DHS said the strategy will work closely in conjunction with the "Beyond the Border" plan released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in February.
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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 Departments of Treasury and Homeland Security are amending their regulations to reflect an extension to a Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Archaeological Material from Pre-Hispanic Cultures and Certain Ethnological Material from the Colonial Period of Peru (MOU). The five-year extension, through June 9, 2017, was granted following a request from the government of Peru to the State Department seeking an extensions. The State Department found the cultural heritage of Peru to continue to be in jeopardy from pillage.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a final rule to permit licensed customs brokers to store records relating to their customs transactions at any location within the U.S. under certain conditions, and to remove the requirement that certain brokers retain entry records in their original format for the 120-day period after release of imported merchandise. The rule ran in the Federal Register June 8.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is seeking additional comments on extending an existing information collection Certificate of Registration, which it plans to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. CBP is proposing that this information collection be extended with a change to the burden hours or information being collected. CBP published the information collection for comment in March 28, and is now allowing for additional comments, until July 9.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released its June 6 Customs Bulletin. While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does list recent information collection notices and Court of International Trade decisions.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) investigators seized a shipment of children’s shoes for containing three times the legal limit of lead.
Barbara Linney joined the Miller & Chevalier's Export Controls and Economic Sanctions practice as a Member. Linney comes to the firm from Blank Rome. Miller & Chevalier also hired Kuang Chiang from the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
In the May 30, 2012 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 24), CBP published a notice that proposes to modify rulings and similar treatment regarding the tariff treatment of recovered refrigerant gas.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection official Daniel Baldwin sought to allay persistent concerns from the trade community on the coming transition to eManifest: Rail and Sea (M1), saying the immediate CBP focus will be implementation rather enforcement. Baldwin, CBP's Executive Director of Cargo and Conveyance Security, spoke at the American Association for Exporters and Importers convention June 5. Several industry executives voiced concerns, especially about the treatment of residue within M1.
The House Homeland Security Committee approved in a voice vote HR-4251, the Securing Maritime Activities through Risk-based Targeting (SMART) for Port Security Act , June 6. The legislation is meant to authorize, enhance, and reform port security programs through increased efficiency and risk-based coordination within the Department of Homeland Security. Text of the bill is here.