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A group of more than 80 trade associations representing the agricultural products industry wants the U.S. House to pass legislation that would fill the current shortfall of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists at the nation's ports of entry. The 2019 Protecting America's...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: California leads the U.S. in meth border seizures by CBP; Albuquerque trucking company acquired by Texas transport firm; Kenworth announces organizational changes at its...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has set the dates for the two customs brokers license exams in 2020: April 1 and Oct. 8. Traditionally, the agency has administered the test on the fourth Wednesday in April and October, unless the regularly scheduled test date conflicts with a national or...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will add ocean and international mail shipments to an electronic pilot program that collects advance data on e-commerce shipments with import values of less than the $800 de minimis. The Section 321 E-Commerce Data Pilot was announced by CBP on July 23 and...

An advisory group of private-sector trade compliance specialists recommended that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) moves forward with its effort to turn the current export manifest filing process paperless. During a Dec. 4 meeting in Washington, D.C., CBP's Commercial Customs Operations...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at an international mail facility in Louisville, Kentucky, recently seized six shipments containing 2,909 counterfeit driver's licenses and 3,123 pieces of blank card stock to manufacture them. Another 527 counterfeit driver's licenses were also seized...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Nov. 19 said it has collected $3,320,425 for various customs violations from an importer of machinery that is used in the production of optical lenses. According to CBP, the violations occurred when Satisloh, which is headquartered in Baar, Switzerland,...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is preparing to begin testing the first of three enhancements to its online truck manifest portal in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). Phase one, expected to start in December, includes several new features for the cross-border trucking industry...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has extended its public comment period another 30 days to receive industry feedback into an electronic pilot program to collect advance data related to e-commerce shipments with import values of less than the $800 de minimis. The so-called Section 321 E-...

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Ford's new electric Mustang will be built in Mexico; Japanese plastic manufacturer investing $65 million in Mexico plant; GEODIS Logistics launches direct air cargo...

Patricia Compres, co-owner of Miami-based Advance Customs Brokers and Consultants, works in a 24-hour world, which doesn't always align with the regular operating hours of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) when it comes to securing necessary cargo inspections. Advance Customs Brokers is...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said it's investigating the source of a 2,133-pound cocaine shipment found inside a container load of scrap aluminum and copper at the Port of Savannah. CBP officers discovered the cocaine on Oct. 29 during a non-intrusive inspection of the Europe-bound...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has published guidelines for how importers and carriers may mitigate penalties for violations of wood packaging materials regulations. CBP enforces wood packaging materials regulations on behalf of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Untreated wood packaging,...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport seized 14,806 pairs of counterfeit Nike shoes with an estimated manufacturer's suggested retail price of about $2.2 million.  The CBP officers coordinated the seizure with the agency's import specialists assigned to...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Trade and the Commerce Department's Office of Enforcement and Compliance have redesigned the antidumping and countervailing duty case management module in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE).  The module was deployed in CBP's umbrella computer...