Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued CSMS #64193234 which includes instructions for repointing your saved ACE Reports to the Automated Export System (AES) universe.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued instructions for the trade on procedures to follow when scheduling cargo inspections for perishable agricultural products during the CBP One Mobile application interruptions.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) experienced a weekend of chaotic layoffs as 700 employees were summarily dismissed — by email. The fired employees were in “probationary” status, meaning they had been hired (or transferred from a position in another agency) in the past one to two years.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Feb. 22 migrated ACE Secure Data Portal account user access management functionality to the modernized ACE Portal, resulting in the retirement of the legacy ACE portal.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Jan. 21 deployed updates to the ACE Protest Module to include a new secondary issue for Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanction Act (CAATSA) exception reviews.

NCBFAA submitted comments to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in response to its proposed rule to revise and automate the submission of the Certification of Admissibility (COA) form, expressing support for the effort to automate entry filing of the COA form. Currently, the COA only applies to certain seafood products from Mexico, but eventually it could apply to seafood from any country that the U.S. deems has fisheries that do not meet U.S. standards for protecting marine mammals.

On behalf of NCBFAA's Board of Directors, Leadership and Staff, we want to take a moment to acknowledge and welcome Agesbec Logistics USA, Complete Shipping Solutions Corp., Dynasty Customs Broker, Gander and White, and Savino Del Bene USA, 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.

NCBFAA, which represents more than 1,300 Regular Member companies that provide customs brokerage services to hundreds of thousands of U.S. importers – large and small, remains at the forefront of providing pertinent regulatory and operational information to our nation’s customs brokers to ensure utmost compliance with the latest round of import tariffs imposed in recent weeks by the White House. This article provides your customs brokerage operation, as well as your importer clients, with the latest IEEPA tariff information and prospective changes to import clearances with Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

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.

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.

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 Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has now launched Self-Registration for the eFiling Product Registry voluntary stage. This allows importers and customs brokers to participate in the program ahead of the mandatory eFiling date of July 1, 2026.

On behalf of NCBFAA's Board of Directors, Leadership and Staff, we want to take a moment to acknowledge and welcome Dynasty Freight Consolidator and Hubbard Express Air Freight & Delivery, 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!

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.