U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican Customs are jointly evaluating trade requests to expand the hours of service for commercial entries or transactions at the Bridge of the Americas crossing in the Port of El Paso/Juarez. Currently open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., 24-hour operations are being considered.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the June 2008 Automated Commercial Environment Trade Account Owner (TAO) monthly update as an attachment to an ACE Portal Accounts CSMS message.
The International Trade Data System has posted its ITDS e-newsletter for the second quarter of 2008. Highlights of the topics discussed in the newsletter include:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memo entitled, "Amendment to Certificate of Eligibility Requirements for North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Tariff Preference Level (TPL) Claims," which provides updates to the 2003 CBP directive on NAFTA claims (No. 3550-085).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has temporarily removed the Entry Summary Query chapter of the ACE ABI CATAIR1 from its Web site.
The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.):
On July 14, 2008, the House of Representatives passed H. Res. 1182, to express the sense of the House that American flags flown on Federal Government buildings and on Federal property be made in the U.S. (Congressional Record, dated 07/14/08, available at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/B?r110:@FIELD(FLD003d)@FIELD(DDATE20080714).)
CBP has issued a news release announcing that it will partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with other agencies, at the new National Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Coordination Center in Arlington, VA.
U.S. Customs and Broker Protection has posted two new Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) ABI CATAIR documents to its Web site: (i) ACE Entry Summary Examples and (ii) Selected EDI "Entry Summary Create/Update" Filing and Response Scenarios.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message informing filers that they may now use Remote Location Filing and Electronic Interface Program to enter goods subject to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Declaration Form 3520-1 (Importation of Motor Vehicles and Motor Vehicle Engines Subject to Federal Air Pollution Regulations) or Engine Declaration Form 3520-21 (Importation of Engines, Vehicles, and Equipment Subject to Federal Air Pollution Regulations) documentation.