CBP East Coast Symposium has been announced. CBP announced this year’s east coast symposium will be in Atlanta, GA, December 5th & 6th 2017. What’s on the agenda? Section 321, also known as the De Minimis shipments is the hot topic. Because of the explosion of e-commerce and low-value shipments coming into the US with […]
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President Trumps proposed changes include requiring that vehicles have 85% NAFTA-sourced parts is under discussion, but talks are going slow. Mexico and Canada are the naysayers that are so far are unwilling to yield, but talks are expected to last into 2018. As it stands now, autos can transport without tariffs as long as they […]
The US Customs and Border Protection has announced changes and updates on Implementation Guides. This X12 Transaction Set contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Customs Manifest Transaction Set (309) for use within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used by carriers, terminal operators, port […]
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Attention Carriers! New CBP Requirement: ALL In-bonds must be filed electronically, effective Nov. 27th, 2017! As initially announced by CBP in CSMS# 17-000621 “Publication of an FRN Concerning Changes to the In-Bond Process”, and the Federal Register Notice dated September 28th, effective November 27th, 2017, CBP will now require that all in-Bonds must be filed electronically, with […]
Thank you to the many men, women, companies and government agencies who are contributing in so many ways to help Texas recover from the devastation brought on by Hurricane Harvey. The stories are amazing! CBP has posted stories and pictures of their contributions, here. Please help by donating through one of the many ways […]
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As a follow up to our June 27th, 2017 blog, announcing the delay of CBP’s July 8th ACE post release deployments, which was a follow up to our June 9th, 2017 blog announcing CBP’s deployment of ACE post release, which was a follow up to our January 10, 2017 blog, etc… You get the picture. […]
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On August 21st CBP sent out CSMS message no. 17-000506 on behalf of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. The message announced three identical webinars, to be held September 5th, 7th, and 11th which will provide information on the evolution of FDA’s Import Trade Auxiliary Communications System or ITACS system “to ensure that trade users […]
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On July 18th, 2017 CBP posted the recently updated ‘Entry Types by PGA’ document. This document advises the trade which CBP entry type codes will require Partner Government Agency data, and when; either at cargo release, summary or other. The majority of PGA’s require that their PGA Message Set be sent at the time of […]
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