US Customs

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...

The U.S. government has entered an agreement with Vietnam to work together with the Southeast Asian country on security and facilitation of legitimate trade. The Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA) was signed by the U.S. embassy's Deputy Chief of Mission Caryn McClelland and Vietnamese Vice...

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) 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-...

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...

The National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA) is frustrated by what it perceives to be a lack of follow-up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials after the agency's Thursday calls with the trade. "All too often, questions that impact the entire trade...