U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a record of changes since May 7 to the ACE ABI CATAIR (Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements). The change log is (here). The full CATAIR is (here).
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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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is hosting a Webinar on June 7th at 3:00 PM on updating the broker regulations (19 CFR Part 111). This is the first of several webinars slated for the summer of 2012 as part of CBP's Role of the Broker Initiative. CBP is seeking comment and input on all facets of the broker regulations from the widest possible audience, it said. Especially important is feedback from small- and medium-sized enterprises, said CBP.
CBP posted updated versions of certain of its Excel workbooks containing historical information and fill rates for TRQs and TPLs. The updated versions are (here).
In the May 30 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 23), CBP published a notice revoking a ruling and similar treatment in order to allow transaction value for “related party” sales and post-importation adjustments to be more broadly used.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued its May 30 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 23), which contains 2 notices of ruling actions. The ruling actions are as follows:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reminded ACE users of a coming outage in a CSMS message. CBP said due to a major hardware upgrade, the ACE certification environment will be unavailable beginning June 1, 2012 at 15:00 EDT through June 3, 2012 at 23:59 EDT. This upgrade won't impact ACE Production, said CBP.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) introduced May 30 a bill in the House of Representatives to improve the regulatory process for preventing the introduction of non-native wildlife to the U.S. The bill (HR-5684) would, among other things, "establish an electronic database that describes, using scientific names to the species level (or subspecies level, if applicable), all quantities of imports of all live wildlife, and the regulatory status of the wildlife, in a form that permits that information to be rapidly accessed" and later make that information publicly available.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released its ACE Trade Account Owner (TAO) Update. The TAO provides an update on participation in CBP's e-Manifest: Rail and Sea, ISF Reports, and tips for obtaining a list of truck conveyances. The CSMS message is (here).