Monday Morning eBriefing

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) on June 8 scheduled an ACE Production deployment for the Ocean Electronic Export Manifest. The deployment included the release of the new Informational Response Message 610 - Empty Vessel (Departure Message – No bill associated to that vessel).

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) provided the trade with a memorandum that includes guidance on the 16-day transition period for all 81 medical-care product COVID exclusions, extending them through May 31, 2023, and the further extension of 77 of the COVID exclusions through Sept. 30, 2023.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has provided the trade with guidance on the extension of suspended tariffs on steel products from the Ukraine, which was announced by the White House on June 1.

Except for the establishment of the agency itself, which took just one month following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the ending of ITS (Impracticable to Screen) Amendment is the fastest action we’ve seen the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) take that will have such sweeping changes for the export of merchandise by air cargo movement in its history.

On behalf of NCBFAA's Board of Directors, Leadership and Staff, we want to take a moment to acknowledge and welcome Overstock.com Service and SGS North America which have recently joined our association.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Bangladesh will no longer require fumigation of arriving baled cotton from the U.S., removing a significant trade barrier for U.S. exports of cotton to Bangladesh.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) in a May 30 Federal Register notice has proposed to amend the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) to maintain alignment with international regulations and standards by adopting various amendments.

NCBFAA submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to an April 10 Federal Register notice on the regulatory impact of import data collection.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on May 31 published a notice of intent to distribute antidumping or countervailing duties (known as the continued dumping and subsidy offset) assessed for fiscal year 2023 in connection with countervailing and antidumping duty orders or findings under the 2021 Antidumping Act.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a May 30 message to the trade that the ACE CATAIR Cargo Release Chapter V35 has been updated to include the Immediate Delivery (ID) Indicator on the SE11 (input) record.

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 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) National Commodity Specialist Division (NCSD) in the Office of Trade has announced its next round of commodity-specific, educational webinars for July.

Attend these informative NCBFAA webinars on June 7 and June 13.

The goal of Workforce Management (WFM) is to strategically deploy workers and resources to boost productivity across an organization. All too often, businesses find themselves exposed to unwanted risk due to circumstances that may be beyond their control.

Customs brokers will now have access to a Cut Flower Validation List to verify the spelling of genus, species, and subspecies names in the APHIS Message Set.

The U.S. State Department has issued its annual determinations and certifications of shrimp-harvesting nations pursuant to Section 609 of Public Law 101-162.

From Sunday, July 30, to Tuesday, Aug. 1, more than 300 importers, exporters, customs brokers, and service providers will convene at the Omni Oklahoma City Hotel for stellar sessions and amazing networking!

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) and the Census Bureau confirmed that 97H and 97R AES response messages were released into AES production on May 25.