• CBP Guidance for Section 232 Duties on Imports of Aluminum, Steel, and Copper

  Apr 3, 2026
  Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Friday evening, April 3, released guidance to the trade regarding the implementation of the April 2 Proclamation, “Strengthening Actions Taken to Adjust Imports of Aluminum, Steel, and Copper into the United States.” NCBFAA has provided CBP’s guidance in full below for the convenience of our customs broker members.
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• DEA Implementation Guide Moved from Draft Section of CBP Website

  Apr 3, 2026
  The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Implementation Guide (IG) can now be found in the “Implementation Guidelines: Ready for Coding” section of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) website. The DEA message set was deployed to CBP’s ACE Production Environment on March 21, 2026. The new DE3 flag is being enforced with a WARNING severity.
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• NCBFAA Customs Broker Members Reminded to Establish ACE Portal Accounts and Submit ACH Banking Information to CBP

  Apr 3, 2026
  Effective Feb. 6, 2026, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began issuing all refunds electronically via Automated Clearing House (ACH) (subject to limited exceptions), as announced in the Electronic Refunds Interim Final Rule published Jan. 2, 2026 in the Federal Register. This requires trade members to set up ACE Portal accounts and to submit ACH banking information so that CBP can issue ACH refunds instead of mailing refunds as U.S. Treasury checks. Importers without a U.S. bank account must either open a U.S. bank account or designate your customs broker with a U.S. bank account consistent with 31 U.S.C. 3332(g).
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CBP Webinar: Forced Labor Portal Overview

18 February, 2026, 1 PM-2 PM

U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Office of Trade is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. ET titled Forced Labor Portal Overview. This webinar will conduct an overview to train users on the usage of the new Forced Labor Portal that launched on January 21, 2026. 

It is now a mandatory requirement to use the Forced Labor Portal for the submission of the following types of review requests:

• Withhold Release Order/Finding admissibility reviews.
• Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act applicability reviews.
• Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act requests for exception; and
• Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act exception requests.

The Portal is available at  https://flportal.cbp.gov/s/login/. Questions regarding this portal should be directed to ForcedLabor@cbp.dhs.gov.

To register for this free webinar, click here. All registrants will receive the access link for the webinar the day before the event, but entry into the webinar is on a first-come, first-served basis as seats are limited. After the live event, this and other previously recorded webinars will be available for replay at Trade Outreach Webinars | U.S. Customs and Border Protection (cbp.gov).

This webinar is a part of CBP’s Continuing Education Program. The number of credits and the credit code will be provided at the end of the webinar.

If you have any questions about this webinar, please contact OTRwebinars@cbp.dhs.gov.