CBP Says SWPM Indicator for China/Hong Kong No Longer Required (SWPM Indicator is Now Optional)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message stating that effective October 5, 2005, the Automated Commercial System (ACS) has been modified to no longer require the reporting of the solid wood packing material (SWPM) indicator in the entry summary 52 record (position 3), for summary lines that have a country of origin of China or Hong Kong.
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In addition, CBP explains that it has now made this 'SWPM' indicator field an optional field, thus giving the trade time to make the necessary programming changes to no longer report the 'SWPM' indicator for China and Hong Kong.
According to CBP, the trade should modify their system to no longer report the 'SWPM' indicator in the entry summary 52 record (position 3), for summary lines that have a country of origin of China or Hong Kong, because the reporting of the SWPM indicator is no longer required.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 09/01/05 news, 05090110, for BP summary of administrative message stating that CBP would temporarily still require this SWPM indicator, even though new wood packaging material (WPM) regulations took effect on September 16, 2005.
See ITT's Online Archives or 09/15/05 news, 05091505, for BP summary of CBP notice a three-phase implementation plan for these WPM regulations, with Phase 1 of the plan, informed compliance, in effect during the period of September 16, 2005 - January 31, 2006. See ITT's Online Archives or 08/24/05 and 07/08/05 news, 05082405 and 05070810, for BP summaries of CBP's FAQ on WPM and the APHIS final rule on WPM, respectively.)
CBP administrative message 05-1147 (dated 10/05/05) available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2005/2005-1147.ADM