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Release: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued a revised draft guidance to improve dietary supplement companies’ new dietary ingredient (NDI) premarket safety notifications to the agency.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
ACE – FDA Interface Mandatory
On June 15th, 2016 CBP’s, new computer system (ACE) and the “new” FDA interface went live! We’ll be honest with you – many problems have emerged within the governments systems resulting in excessively slow responses, dropped importer FURLS records and a greater volume of data fields to be completed for a FDA importers entry – causing great time frames for entry data input. FDA on a number of occasions have had to post messages to Customs message system advising... Read More
Lacey Act – Mandatory in ACE
CBP has fully implemented the Lacey Act for entry processing on June 15th, 2016. In the months Importers and foreign exporters, now must provide proper Lacy Act importation documents for their Lacey Act regulated products. Lacy Act documentation can be found on our RESOURCES tab, under TOOLS, and FORMS DIRECTORY. Or copy this link and paste it into your browser URL address line: http://www.sandersbrokerage.com/dev/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Lacey-Act-Declaration.pdf Read More
ACE and Sanders Brokerage Services
The question has been asked, will Sanders Brokerage Services be ready for the CBP ACE system (Automated Commercial Environment)? Well the answer is a resounding “yes”. We started submitting ACE Entry Summary transmissions to CBP for well over 6 months at this time, and just last week we made of first ACE “Cargo Release” submissions. We are moving close to the CBP February 28th 2016 deadline of being able to electronically function within the CBP ACE Environment and we... Read More
GSP – To Be Reinstated July 29 2015 (retroactive refunds applicable)
Note to Importers — GSP (The Generalized Systems of Preference) has been re-enacted back into law and will become effective on July 29th 2015. Following is a synopsis taken from Customs (CBP) website: On June 29, 2015, President Obama signed into law a bill (H.R. 1295), that reauthorizes the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) (which expired on July 31, 2013) through Dec. 31, 2017. Under the new law, duty reductions under the GSP program will begin 30 days after the law is enacted,... Read More
