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Aug 1, 2025
Recognizing the rapid and unexpected increase in duties, customs brokers and warehouse proprietors increasingly are encountering situations of unclaimed, rejected, and abandoned cargo. In response, the NCBFAA Customs Committee, Transportation Committee, Committee Counsel, and Leadership have collaboratively developed a guidance document to assist NCBFAA Regular Members to address the recurring questions regarding this cargo and to clarify the rights of the transacting parties, as well as service providers.
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Aug 1, 2025
The Vanguard Pest Control treatment provider informed the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) that it will discontinue phytosanitary fumigations and close its treatment facility at the Newark, New Jersey, location at the end of July. APHIS provided guidance to the trade.
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Aug 1, 2025
A summary of the latest legislative and regulatory transport, logistics and trade sector updates brought to you by our NCBFAA Transportation Counsel firm Venable.
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Aug 1, 2025
A summary of the latest customs and cross-border trade regulatory updates brought to you by our NCBFAA Customs Counsel firm Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg.
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Aug 1, 2025
NCBFAA is excited to announce that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Acting Executive Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Field Operations (OFO) Diane Sabatino has been confirmed to speak to our association during the Government Affairs Conference (GAC) in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Sept. 8, in a fireside chat with NCBFAA General and Customs Counsel Lenny Feldman.
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Aug 1, 2025
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) registration for the Oct. 22 Customs Broker License Exam (CBLE) will open on Monday, Aug. 11, at 12:01 a.m. ET and close on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 4:30 p.m. ET.
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Aug 1, 2025
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Sept. 27 will implement a nationwide rejection of missing or invalid shippers and consignees in Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS). Prior to issuing rejections, CBP will implement a warning period, which also started July 28.
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Aug 1, 2025
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) on July 28 said it has started publishing Containerized Freight Statistics (CFS) data as submitted by ocean common carriers to the FMC, in accordance with requirements set forth in the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA) and codified at 46 U.S. Code § 41110.
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Aug 1, 2025
The USDA Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS) has published an update to its CATAIR guidelines. These updates to the CATAIR include clarification for filing MO2 message sets in ACE.
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Aug 1, 2025
On behalf of NCBFAA's Board of Directors, Leadership and Staff, we want to take a moment to acknowledge and welcome Pereda Customs Broker, which has 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!
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