U.S. Customs and Border Protection is continuing to retire old Automated Commercial Environment reports and launch new ones, providing a wealth of information that importers can use to boost compliance and duty savings efforts. In October 2017 CBP made available a number of new reports…

Changes to existing law are necessary to bring the U.S. into compliance with a number of obligations under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement, according to a recent document from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Legislation to implement the USMCA could be introduced and considered…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that the Automated Commercial Environment deployment originally scheduled for Feb. 9 has been postponed due to the recent federal government shutdown. This deployment included automation of CBP Form 5106 (click here for more information), unique identifiers for Centers of…

The European Union reports that it has made progress on a number of trade-related issues in talks with the U.S. since last summer but warns that additional movement would be jeopardized if the U.S. increases tariffs on imports of automobiles and auto parts from the…

The Trump administration will not initiate a process for excluding goods from the Section 301 additional tariff on $200 billion worth of imports from China until at least March, according to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. In addition, Lighthizer said, those goods cannot be exempted…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is further delaying enforcement of certain aspects of its updated regulations on in-bond movements due to the ongoing federal government shutdown. Enforcement was supposed to begin Feb. 6 but CBP officials say it will be pushed back at least 30 days because…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection will delay releasing a revised CBP Form 5106 (see attached), which will be renamed the Create/Update Importer Identity Form, due to the ongoing government shutdown. The release had been scheduled for Feb. 9 and CBP officials say a new date…

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has suspended its planned enforcement of a regulatory change concerning the importer security filing importer due to a lapse in funding. CBP had planned to begin issuing liquidated damages claims for violations of the so-called ISF-5 requirements as of Jan….

U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently completed one test of a potential use of blockchain technology and is looking to conduct additional tests this year. A blockchain essentially functions as a distributed ledger that records transactions in a verifiable and permanent way. Blockchain records are…

Claims for drawback of duties and taxes should be easier to file and process under new U.S. Customs and Border Protection regulations that took effect Dec. 18. This rule, which implements the changes to drawback law made by the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act,…