In February 2006, two members of the trade community prepared a pamphlet entitled "Trade User's Guide for ACE-ESAR Release A2," in order to help current ABI/ACS customs brokers, self-filers, and their automation vendors focus on significant changes they might experience as ACE ESAR (Entry Summary, Accounts, Revenue, also referred to as ACE Release 5) is rolled out.
In February 2006, two members of the trade community prepared a pamphlet entitled "Trade User's Guide for ACE-ESAR Release A2," in order to help current ABI/ACS customs brokers, self-filers, and their automation vendors focus on significant changes they might experience as ACE ESAR (Entry Summary, Accounts, Revenue, also referred to as ACE Release 5) is rolled out.
In February 2006, two members of the trade community prepared a pamphlet entitled "Trade User's Guide for ACE-ESAR Release A2," in order to help current ABI/ACS customs brokers, self-filers, and their automation vendors focus on significant changes they might experience as ACE ESAR (Entry Summary, Accounts, Revenue, also referred to as ACE Release 5) is rolled out.
In February 2006, two members of the trade community prepared a pamphlet entitled "Trade User's Guide for ACE-ESAR Release A2," in order to help current ABI/ACS customs brokers, self-filers, and their automation vendors focus on significant changes they might experience as ACE ESAR (Entry Summary, Accounts, Revenue, also referred to as ACE Release 5) is rolled out.
The ongoing Qualcomm-Nokia battle is mostly saber- rattling by the handset maker over the extent of Qualcomm CDMA technology rights, industry players said. Qualcomm seems likely to benefit most from the dispute but the conflict could indicate shift in the manufacturing sector, they said. Nokia, not surprisingly, disagreed about Qualcomm’s chances.
Pursuant to the Offset Act1, also known as the Byrd Amendment, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice in the Federal Register of its intent to distribute assessed antidumping (AD) or countervailing (CV) duties for Fiscal Year (FY) 2006. Written certifications to obtain a continued dumping and subsidy offset under a particular AD/CV order must be received by July 31, 2006.
The Entertainment Software Assn. (ESA) and Entertainment Merchants Assn. (EMA) sued Tues. seeking to void a new game law in Minn. The trade groups called the law -- which would make it illegal for kids under 17 to buy or rent an -- or AO- rated game -- “unconstitutional” and “unenforceable.”
Chinese leaders say they'll crack down on intellectual property rights (IPR) violations, but “we need to see more than just statements,” a Commerce Dept. official told the U.S.-China Economic & Security Commission at a Wed. hearing. Citing improved IPR relations between the 2 giant economies, such as a Chinese vow to try to thwart piracy by importing only computers with preloaded software, International IPR Enforcement Coordinator Chris Israel said: “We consider all options to be on the table.” If China doesn’t clean up its IPR act this summer, “it’s very possible” the U.S. will bring a complaint at the WTO this fall, said Tim Stratford, asst. U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)-China Affairs: “We will not shy away from dispute resolution.”
The U.S. must keep Russia in mind as it prepares for its WTO case against China alleging intellectual property rights (IPR) violations, commissioners and witnesses said at a U.S.-China Economic & Security Commission hearing Wed. The case could be filed as early as the fall (see separate story), but Comr. Richard D'Amato fretted that “the cards are stacked against us” because of WTO procedures and the U.S.’s relative unpopularity in Geneva these days. A former RIAA chief also lamented that Chinese online infringement rules, weakened a year ago in an administrative decision, are about to get worse from the group’s perspective.
(BP is reissuing its summary of this CBP final rule in order to add omitted text regarding in-bond transport for Option 2, as well as add other information. This amended summary completely replaces06060505 in the June 5, 2006 issue of ITT. Added sentences or paragraphs are identified by ***.)