Monday Morning eBriefing

A group of 74 trade associations and companies involved in ocean freight transportation, including NCBFAA, joined a letter that was delivered to the U.S. Senate on Aug. 30 to urge the chamber to reconfirm Carl Bentzel and Lois Sola to serve second terms on the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC).

PierPASS reminded users of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach container terminals that effective Sept. 1 at midnight PT the Traffic Mitigation Fee (TMF) will increase to $37.71 per TEU and $75.42 per FEU.

Don’t let it pass you by! Attend the NCBFAA Government Affairs Conference (GAC) in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 22-24 to learn about timely and critical industry changes influenced by Capitol Hill lawmakers, the White House, and federal regulators.

CBP asks that customs brokers and other trade members to add a Technical Point of Contact (POC) designated for Cybersecurity to their ACE portal account for CBP to contact if a legitimate cybersecurity threat is identified.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is reminding drawback claimants and filers that drawback claims must be filed in accordance with all applicable requirements appearing in CBP regulations, the ACE Business Rules and Process Document, and the CBP and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR).

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encourages all customs brokers, importers, carriers, and other trade community users of ACE to take this brief 2024 ACE Customer Satisfaction Survey.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently deployed the ACE Reports launch button in the modernized ACE Portal in the header section.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will hold the next Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 18, in Washington, D.C.

On behalf of NCBFAA's Board of Directors, Leadership and Staff, we want to take a moment to acknowledge and welcome BATI Logistics, DutyCalc Data Systems, Elyon Global Shipping, Global Gateway Logistics, Heavy Weight Transport, and Luis Rodriguez Customs Brokers which have recently joined our association.

The Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) on Saturday, Aug. 24, ruled to allow Canadian Labor Minister Steven MacKinnon to end job action in Canada’s rail sector and impose binding arbitration.

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

The NCBFAA Transportation Committee wants to remind our members that the Canadian rail strike threat remains in place until the contracts between Canada’s two Class 1 railroads and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) are reached.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Sept. 23 will deploy a change in the ACE production environment (PROD) to electronically prevent filers from changing an entry via Post Summary Correction (PSC) from a non-quota entry type to a quota entry type (02).

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

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced a solicitation for applications to set up a Centralized Examination Station (CES) for Miami International Airport.

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

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said the Entry Summary Query has been enhanced to return a new bill type code as follows: The Output JK–Record and Output JN-Record will return Bill Type “Debit Voucher” as code 7.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Sept. 17 will add a new accounting class code (CC) in ACE to facilitate drawback of Petroleum Superfund taxes.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Sept. 28 will deploy enhancements to the Document Image System (DIS) to facilitate export vehicle-related document submission via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has developed additional optional data elements for Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS) that would assist in obtaining additional information about shipments and parties involved.