CBP has “cleared” a proposed rule to mandate electronic export manifest for all cargo leaving the U.S. by rail, acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller said during a March 6 meeting of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee. Miller said the rule may undergo another “intergovernmental review” before it can be published in the Federal Register. CBP in its fall 2023 regulatory agenda said it was hoping to publish the rule in June (see 2401030037).
The Fish and Wildlife Service is removing the Florida golden aster (Chrysopsis floridana), a "short-lived perennial," from the Endangered Species List, it said in a final rule released March 4. An FWS review indicated that “threats to the species have been eliminated or reduced to the point that the species has recovered and no longer meets the definition of an endangered or threatened species," the agency said. The delisting takes effect April 4.
CBP no longer will use the term “Forwarding Agent” in the Automated Export System, replacing it with “Authorized Agent,” the agency said in a Feb. 27 CSMS message. The Census Bureau requested the change, effective April 1, after the trade community told it the term forwarding agent can be “misleading.”
The National Marine Fisheries Service released a final rule Feb. 20 to list the Atlantic humpback dolphin (Sousa teuszii) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. New import and export restrictions established by the final rule take effect March 22.
The Census Bureau emailed tips this week on how to address the most frequent messages generated this month in the Automated Export System.
The Fish and Wildlife Service is issuing a final rule listing a subspecies of silverspot butterfly from Colorado, New Mexico and Utah (Speyeria nokomis nokomis) as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The listing includes a 4(d) rule for this species that prohibits importation and exportation without a permit. New import and export restrictions set by the agency’s final rule take effect March 18.
The Census Bureau emailed tips this week on how to address the most frequent messages generated this month in the Automated Export System.
The Environmental Protection Agency is setting new significant new use rules (SNURs) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for 329 per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that have not been imported, manufactured or processed for many years and are designated as inactive on the TSCA Chemical Substance Inventory, it said in a final rule released Jan. 10. As a result of the SNURs, anyone planning to manufacture, import or process any of the chemical substances for an activity designated as a significant new use by this rule are required to notify EPA at least 90 days in advance. Importers of chemicals subject to these SNURs will need to certify their compliance with the SNUR requirements, and exporters of these chemical substances will now become subject to export notification requirements. The final rule takes effect March 11.
The Census Bureau on Jan. 2 updated its tables of Schedule B and Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes that are no longer valid for the Automated Export System to reflect changes made to the codes for 2024, the agency said in an email to industry. AES will accept shipments with outdated codes during a 30-day grace period that began when the codes expired Dec. 31, Census said. Reporting an outdated code after the grace period will “result in a fatal error.”
DHS is drafting a proposed rule that could mandate electronic export manifest for all cargo leaving the U.S. by rail, according to the agency’s recently released fall 2023 regulatory agenda. The proposed rule would require filers of that electronic export information to “identify the parties eligible to transmit information, describe the time frames prior to departure of the train in which the information is due, and identify an initial filing that must occur 24 hours prior to departure from the port of export while requiring that remaining data be transmitted at least two hours prior to such departure.”