Monday Morning eBriefing

The next Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) quarterly meeting will be held in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, June 18, from 1-5 p.m. ET. NCBFAA encourages as many members as possible to attend the COAC.

The NCBFAA Customs Committee and Counsel of Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., will continue to monitor and highlight key changes with regards to the May 28 Court of International Trade (CIT) opinion invalidating the IEEPA tariffs, the U.S. government's appeal through the Court of Appeals in the Federal Circuit (CAFC), and what that will mean for our customs broker members.

NCBFAA has opened registration for the 2025 Government Affairs Conference (GAC) to be held at the Grand Hyatt Washington on Sept. 7-9. We urge attendees to register now to take advantage of the special room block and early bird savings!

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance providing drug manufacturers with recommendations on replacing color additives in drugs.

The HTS Sequencing Toolkit on the NCBFAA Customs Committee Webpage has been updated to include some helpful information about how to use the Treasury Check Verification System (TCVS).

The NCBFAA Regulatory Agencies Committee (RAC) has provided a roundup of the latest PGA news, including a Withhold Release Order involving a Chinese-flagged fishing vessel, APHIS permitting fresh pineapple from Indonesia, and the continuation of live animal import restrictions from Mexico.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on May 29 deployed the Auto-Rejection of Insufficient Manifest Cargo Description enhancement in the ACE Certification environment.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on May 29 posted a new Draft Cargo Release Status Notification document pertaining to automated enforcement of de minimis.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said, effective May 30, that the local pipeline/information notice messages process will cease. To continue receiving local information regarding Port and/or Center of Excellence and Expertise (Centers) activity, customs brokers must subscribe to the new Trade Information Notice (TIN).

The NCBFAA Customs Committee has requested CBP to update the ACE Business Rules document or issue a CSMS Message, but for now customs brokers should follow these steps to meet their obligation to file the entry summary, even if the importer fails to provide payment for duties and fees.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said an update to the ACE production environment became effective May 27. ACE Currency Exchange Rates will now transmit, via the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) %R message, the U.S. dollar-euro exchange rate for countries that use the euro as their official currency.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) advised customs brokers that the Drawback Guidelines CATAIR Version 26 has been updated to Version 27 for the increase in Harmonized Tariffs per Entry Summary Line.

On behalf of NCBFAA's Board of Directors, Leadership and Staff, we want to take a moment to acknowledge and welcome Allied CHB, CQ Logistics, Janet Ujfalusi, LinkEx, MAC Logistics & Services, Prime Cargo People Logistics Corp, and Richard Murray & Co., which have recently joined our association. We're so excited to have these firms join our organization and we are happy to assist in any way we can!

A summary of the latest legislative and regulatory transport, logistics and trade sector updates brought to you by our NCBFAA Transportation Counsel firm Venable.

A summary of the latest customs and cross-border trade regulatory updates brought to you by our NCBFAA Customs Counsel firm Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg.

The NCBFAA Customs Committee and Counsel of Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., continue to monitor and highlight key changes within the IEEPA tariff and de minimis landscape on behalf of our customs broker members. This week's IEEPA Tariff Memo outlines the changes brought by the White House’s May 12 Executive Order initiating changes to the ad valorem duty rate, tariff modifications, and de minimis for China, plus a new CBP FAQ regarding feeder vessel scenarios impacted by in-transit guidance for reciprocal entries and other sources of tariff information.

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has rescinded the AI Diffusion Rule that was issued on Jan. 15, 2025, and was take effect May 15, 2025. BIS does plan to publish a regulation that will formalize the rescission of the existing rule, as well as issue a replacement rule in the future.

The Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration has posted a notice on its webpage stating the agency is aware of an issue with the Consolidated Screening List’s Application Programming Interface (API) functionality, which includes the CSL search engine.

The Census Bureau on May 20 will update AESDirect to allow for the visibility to all Partner Government Agency (PGA) requirements that have been integrated in AESDirect.

A summary of the latest legislative and regulatory transport, logistics and trade sector updates brought to you by our NCBFAA Transportation Counsel firm Venable.