U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a memo providing proration and liquidation instructions for the 2008 in-quota (low duty) tariff-rate quota quantity for tuna and skipjack (tuna), in airtight containers, not in oil, weighing with their contents not over 7 kilograms each, that is not the product of any U.S. insular possession.
During a February 22, 2008 press conference call, several trade members of the Trade Support Network1 discussed a variety of issues, including an update on the status of U.S. Customs and Border Protection's proposal to have a minimal number of edits and validations in the Automated Commercial Environment system (commonly referred to as "Edit-Lite").2
The Washington Trade Daily reports that Colombian Trade Minister Luis Guillermo Plata has asked the U.S. to extend trade preferences under the Andean Trade Preference Act, as amended by the Andean Trade Preferences and Drug Eradication Act, until 2009 while congress debates a free trade agreement signed between Colombia and the U.S. (Washington Trade Daily, dated 02/04/08, available at http://www.washingtontradedaily.com/)
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources, two truck Automated Commercial Environment updates that were scheduled to be implemented on Saturday, January 26, 2008 are now rescheduled for Saturday, February 2, 2008.
On January 26, 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection was scheduled to implement an Automated Commercial Environment update to enable electronic in-bond requests filed via the Automated Broker Interface message QP1 to update a shipment that is reported in a truck ACE e-manifest with a shipment release type of Pre-Arrival Processing System (PAPS2).
The Census Bureau has posted to its Web site a list of 180 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) numbers that are invalid for use in reporting exports (either via the Automated Export System (AES) or on a paper Shipper's Export Declaration (SED)) as of January 1, 2008.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a proposed rule that would amend its regulations at 19 CFR Parts 4, 12, 18, 101, 103, 113, 122, 123, 141, 143, 149 and 192 to require Security Filing (SF) information from importers and additional information from carriers (10+2) for vessel (maritime) cargo before it is brought into the U.S.
According to a Bureau of Census Automated Export System (AES) broadcast and Census sources, effective January 1, 2008, the Schedule B and Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) tables in AES were updated to accept the changes to the 2008 codes.