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Apr 9, 2025
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is currently soliciting for a Centralized Examination Station (CES) in the Area Port of Houston/Galveston, Houston Seaport. Applications for the CES will be accepted for 60 days, from April 4 to June 3.
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Apr 2, 2025
The USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will expand the Risk-Based Sampling at Ports of Entry (RBS POE) program to include new varieties of lettuce arriving at select U.S. ports of entry starting the week of March 31.
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Apr 2, 2025
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. unveiled a major restructuring plan for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that calls for 10,000 additional personnel cuts, centralization of functions and a consolidation of 28 divisions into 15, resulting in budget savings of $1.8 billion annually for the sprawling agency.
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Apr 2, 2025
A March 25 Executive Order from the White House called for the Treasury Department to cease issuing paper checks for all federal disbursements, including tax refunds, effective Sept. 30, 2025.
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Mar 26, 2025
The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has made some updates to its HTS flagging. These changes can be found on the agency’s website HTS master correlation table as well.
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Mar 26, 2025
In a Federal Register notice, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) postponed the April 1 effective date for the application of user fees for small commercial passenger aircraft. The delay is for two months – until June 2.
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Mar 26, 2025
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) in a notice to the trade on March 21 said it is aware that government contractors are receiving fraudulent solicitations from individuals using e-mail addresses disguised to appear as originating at the FMC.
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Mar 26, 2025
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) notified the trade that they will need to repoint their saved export reports from the Trade Export Data Universe prior to March 31.
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Mar 26, 2025
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on March 21 announced its deployment a fix to an issue in ACE causing the value to double on reports using the Automated Export System (AES).
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Mar 26, 2025
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the Port of Atlanta has provided customs brokers and importers operating in the vessel and air transport environments on how to handle General Order (GO) merchandise that arrives at the port.
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