The Port of Los Angeles has announced that U.S. District Judge Snyder issued a ruling on Aug. 26 in favor of the City of Los Angeles and the Port of Los Angeles in a lawsuit brought by the American Trucking Associations over the Port’s Clean Truck Program. The court awarded judgment in favor of the City of Los Angeles and ruled that the Concession Agreement provisions are enforceable.
CBP has posted the minutes from the May 11, 2010 COAC meeting that was held in Philadelphia. Topics discussed at the meeting include trade facilitation, 10+2, global supply chain security, bonds, intellectual property rights, ACE, etc. (See ITT's Online Archives or 05/13/10 news, 10051314, for BP summary providing an overview of topics discussed at the meeting.)
CBP has issued a memorandum announcing that the fifth tranche for the fiscal year 2010 specialty sugar TRQ that opened on August 24, 2010 did not oversubscribe at opening moment. (QBT-10-545, dated 08/26/10)
An overview of a number of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, is provided below. (Note that the complete message is only available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)
CBP has issued a memorandum providing the country-specific in-quota allocations for the fiscal year 2011 raw cane sugar tariff rate quota. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced that the raw cane sugar has been authorized to open a month early and will open on September 1, 2010. (See ITT's Online Archives or 08/13/10 news, 10081317, for BP summary of the USTR’s allocation of the FY 2011 raw cane sugar TRQ, etc. See ITT's Online Archives or 08/20/10 news, 10082023, for BP summary announcing the TRQ would open early.)
CBP has posted an updated version of its TRQ/TPL "threshold to fill" list, a quick reference to monitor TRQs and TPLs that are approaching their restraint limit or have filled their in-quota (low) rate. The list is divided into two sections: those that are at least 85% filled and those that are filled.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a final rule, effective August 26, 2010, making corrections to various parts of 19 CFR as part of its policy to periodically review its regulations to ensure that they are as accurate and up-to-date as possible so that the importing and general public are aware of CBP programs, requirements, and procedures regarding import-related activities.
CBP has posted an updated version of its Trade Support Network Leadership matrix, which lists all of the TSN committees and subcommittees with the Trade and CBP/Gov Co-Chairs and the ACE Support Team (AST) Business Leads. The matrix also includes a list of the current TSN Trade Ambassadors.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a final rule, effective September 27, 2010, which amends its regulations regarding the requirements that an individual must satisfy in order to take the written examination for an individual customs broker’s license.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a final rule, effective August 26, 2010, which adopts as final without change, its August 2008 interim final rule that added a new 19 CFR 12.142 to require additional data elements, declarations, and recordkeeping requirements for certain imports softwood lumber and softwood lumber products exported from any country into the U.S.