On July 7th the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) published guidance for Importing Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products into the United States. FSIS is the public health regulatory agency responsible for ensuring that domestic and imported meat, poultry, and egg products are safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged. […]
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On June 30, 2017, CBP published a final rule in the Federal Register regarding the customs broker exam process. Previously CBP had published a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) to modernize the customs broker’s examination provisions which is now made final. Specifically, CBP proposed amending the customs broker’s examination provisions, which are contained in 19 […]
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On June 29th CBP published CSMS message no. 17-000381 announcing the availability of Harmonized System Update (HSU) 1704, which went into effect on July 1, 2017. This USHTS update contains modifications mandated by the 484 F Committee (the Committee for Statistical Annotation of Tariff Schedules), adjustments to several Participating Government Agency (PGA) indicators, and […]
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Hold that thought…. CBP has just announced that the July 8th scheduled deployment for Entry Summary functionality to ACE has been postponed. Though just announced under a month ago, CBP has determined that a few more things need to be worked about before the deployment. Read more of the history on this topic here. Per CBP, […]
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CBP is looking to add new members to their COAC group, or Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee. Members of COAC work closely with CBP to make recommendations on many trade functions. Read more articles about COAC’s work with CBP here. The following is an announcement today from the NCBFAA… CBP is asking individuals interested in […]
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CBP no longer providing for exchange rate queries in ABI. In CSMS# 17-000336, June 8, 2017, CBP announced that currency exchange rates will now be found on only on their website, and that “As of July 8, 2017 the foreign currency exchange rates and its related currency rate query will no longer be provided via […]
It’s the same story we posted on January 10th, 2017, only this time it’s actually going to happen. As a follow up to yesterday’s blog, CBP pulled out a bit of a surprise this week in announcing that reconciliation was finally moving to ACE, along with other Post Summary capabilities, effective July 8th, 2017. With this deployment, US […]
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