The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Trade’s Continuing Education Program will host two webinars on Jan. 22 and Jan. 23. These webinars are a part of CBP’s Continuing Education Program and will be worth one credit each.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in a Dec. 16 Federal Register notice said an increase in Section 301 tariff rates on five subheadings of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) covering tungsten products, wafers, and polysilicon will take effect Jan. 1, 2025, at 12:01 a.m. ET.

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 on Dec. 12 said the CAMIR ACE Air Import Manifest Message Line Identifiers Implementation Guide has been updated.

NCBFAA Vice President Kristi App received the Port of New Orleans Propeller Club’s prestigious 2024 Maritime Person of the Year award on Dec. 11.

If you’re a Licensed Customs Broker and an NCBFAA member, you can earn continuing education credits if you register to attend the 52nd NCBFAA Annual Conference at the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass on April 6-9, 2025. The new Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Continuing Education (CE) requirement is mandatory for all individually licensed customs brokers and non-compliance could result in a suspended or revoked license.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Miami International Airport, effective Jan. 12, will have new hours – Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET – for perishable entries (except for live animals) which require cargo processing at the General Aviation Facility outside Cargo Operations regular business hours.

Due to changes in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) import requirements for products from Canada that contain cooked egg, customs brokers have encountered confusion as to what it means to be “shelf stable.”

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

On behalf of NCBFAA's Board of Directors, Leadership and Staff, we want to take a moment to acknowledge and welcome Biocair Customs Brokerage, Capital Logistics International, and HOYA International Corp., which have recently joined our association. We're so excited to have this firm join our organization and we are happy to assist in any way we can! In addition, NCBFAA would like to acknowledge the new corporate name for Regular Member Barnhart Global LLC.

The NCBFAA Customs Committee and Counsel of Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., updated our customs broker members regarding the HTS numbers that were removed from the original Customs and Border Protection (CBP) CSMS from June 3 announcing the application of tariffs for imports of aluminum and steel and their derivative products. However, those deleted aluminum and steel HTS numbers were included in the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Federal Register notice of June 12 which stated that household appliances with aluminum and steel content will be subject to Section 232 50% tariffs, effective 12:01 a.m. ET on June 23.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on June 28 will deploy an enhancement in the ACE Production environment that will increase the number of Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) numbers allowed per entry summary line to 16 HTS numbers from the current limit of eight HTS numbers.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) notified the trade that the ACE Import Truck Manifest ANSI X12 350 Message Implementation Guide has been updated with new valid disposition codes.

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) has updated the Drawback Error Dictionary for the new ID08 error message. The associated programming changes will be available in the CERT environment on June 16, 2025.

The NCBFAA Customs Committee and Counsel of Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., updated our customs broker members regarding the HTS numbers that were removed from the original Customs and Border Protection (CBP) CSMS from June 3 announcing the application of tariffs for imports of aluminum and steel and their derivative products. However, those deleted aluminum and steel HTS numbers were included in the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Federal Register notice of June 12 which stated that household appliances with aluminum and steel content will be subject to Section 232 50% tariffs, effective 12:01 a.m. ET on June 23.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on June 28 will deploy an enhancement in the ACE Production environment that will increase the number of Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) numbers allowed per entry summary line to 16 HTS numbers from the current limit of eight HTS numbers.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) notified the trade that the ACE Import Truck Manifest ANSI X12 350 Message Implementation Guide has been updated with new valid disposition codes.

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) has updated the Drawback Error Dictionary for the new ID08 error message. The associated programming changes will be available in the CERT environment on June 16, 2025.

The NCBFAA Customs Committee and Counsel of Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A., updated our customs broker members regarding the HTS numbers that were removed from the original Customs and Border Protection (CBP) CSMS from June 3 announcing the application of tariffs for imports of aluminum and steel and their derivative products. However, those deleted aluminum and steel HTS numbers were included in the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Federal Register notice of June 12 which stated that household appliances with aluminum and steel content will be subject to Section 232 50% tariffs, effective 12:01 a.m. ET on June 23.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on June 28 will deploy an enhancement in the ACE Production environment that will increase the number of Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) numbers allowed per entry summary line to 16 HTS numbers from the current limit of eight HTS numbers.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) notified the trade that the ACE Import Truck Manifest ANSI X12 350 Message Implementation Guide has been updated with new valid disposition codes.

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) has updated the Drawback Error Dictionary for the new ID08 error message. The associated programming changes will be available in the CERT environment on June 16, 2025.