CBP to increase Merchandise Processing Fee / Jan 1 2018
Customs Fees to Adjust on January 1, 2018 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced in a recent Federal Register notice that the Merchandise Processing Fee (MPF) will be adjusted and increased to account for inflation effective January 1, 2018. The new minimum MPF will be $25.67 and the new maximum MPF will be $497.99. The rate for calculating MPF (0.3464) remains unchanged. The MPF for informal entries will increase to $2.05. To review the notice and other scheduled fee increases, please... Read More
SOFTWOOD LUMBER – ADD – CVD Fact Sheet
November 2nd 2017 the Commerce Department announced its affirmative final determinations in the ADD (Antidumping duty) and CVD (Countervailing duty) investigations of imports of softwood lumber from Canada. In the publications it indicates that the next steps will most likely occur on December 18th, 2017 when International Trade Commission (ITC) will make it’s final determination. In general the “all other” Antidumping duty rate is 6.58% of the value, and the “all other”... Read More
FDA – FSVC Food Safety Verification Program
Starting May 27 2017 the FDA Will being implementing the FDA’s Food Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). The central point in this risk based program requires that the ultimate purchaser in the USA to whom the FDA have identified as the importer or the person in the USA purchasing or buying the goods supply to the broker, 1) The DUNS# and 2) The FDA Registration Number. To repeat the these numbers must be from the U.S. buyer / importer of the goods. A Canadian foreign Importer of Record... Read More
Pacific Highway Construction – Complete
CBP has completed the reconstruction of the truck crossing at the port of Blaine, Washington. Three (3) lanes are currently open and all appears to be flowing well. Our hats go off to our friends at U.S. Customs during the reconstruction phase, they did a wonderful job notifying the public of the process and doing what they could to mitigate delays. If you want to monitor port of entry delay times you can still make reference to CBP’s Border Wait Times page. Read More
ACE E-Manifest Disconnect
At this time our office would like to post a few facts about an ongoing issue associated with the ACE E-Manifest transmissions and their frequent failure to link or connect to a brokers import entry. If you haven’t noticed, you’re lucky as this has been an ongoing problem for four or five months now, and has become more prevalent following the full deployment of ‘core’ ACE at the end of August 2016. On October 11th, Steve Sanders was in Washington, DC meeting with the U.S.... Read More
FDA Biennial Registration Notice
The 2016 Biennial Registration Renewal Period begins Saturday, October 1, 2016 and ends on Saturday, December 31, 2016 at 11:59 PM. Section 415 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) [21 U.S.C. § 350d] requires food facilities required to register with FDA to renew such registrations during the period beginning on October 1 and ending on December 31 of each even-numbered year. If you register your food facility before October 1, 2016, you must renew your registration before... Read More
NOAA & ITDS (NMFS) – Tuna Imports
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a posting and deadline for companies importing fish products regulated by the NMFS to register. Here is a link to the notice to importers, for your information. You will have to copy and paste this into the URL address line of your web browser to view and download the document. http://www.sandersbrokerage.com/dev/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/NOAA-Tuna-imports.pdf Read More
COTTON FEE – Rate Lowered and De Minimis rule eliminated
The Agricultural Marketing Services have modified their rule for the collection of Cotton Fees. One of the impacts is the elimination of the “de minimis” rule. CBP has corrected their (ACE entry) operating system to properly report and collect the formerly small (de minimis) dollar amounts of Cotton Fees. Following is a posting by the Agriculture Marketing Services. Summary: The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is amending the Cotton Board Rules and Regulations to remove... Read More
DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS – Revised Draft Premarket Guidance
Release: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued a revised draft guidance to improve dietary supplement companies’ new dietary ingredient (NDI) premarket safety notifications to the agency. These notifications help the agency identify safety concerns before products reach consumers. Under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), the manufacturer or distributor must notify the FDA at least 75 days before beginning to market a dietary supplement that contains a new... Read More
F.C.C – Changes in Customs entry reporting
Following is a Customs Message System notification which appears to remove the need for the trade and brokers to report FCC information in an import entry. Administrative Message Message Id 16-000583 Title Explanation of FCC Data Requirements for July, 2016 Subject ABI Transmission Date 2016-07-13 Message Effective July 1, 2016, FCC flags were removed to comply the with Federal Register Notice allowing trade to be exempt from filing FCC data until the regulations... Read More
