CBP Administrative Messages, Web Postings, Etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message stating that the duration of the regularly scheduled ACS system outage for August 6, 2005 will be extended by approximately two hours to accommodate routine file maintenance. As a result, the outage will begin at 0500 hours on Saturday and end no later than 0900 hours, Eastern Daylight Savings Time. During this outage, transactions submitted to any of the ACS systems, ABI, Air-AMS or Ocean/Rail AMS will be queued for processing, but will not be processed and replied to until the outage is concluded. (Adm: 05-0896, dated 08/03/05, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2005/2005-0896.ADM )
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1. Duration of Regularly Scheduled Saturday ACS Outage Extended
2. Various CBP Messages, Postings, Etc.
CBP has recently posted the following to its Web site:
CSI now screens more than two-thirds of U.S. bound cargo. CBP has issued a press release announcing that approximately 70% of all maritime containers shipped to the U.S. are being screened through CBP's Container Security Initiative (CSI). (Press release, dated 08/03/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/press_releases/08032005.xml )
Nigeria handloomed, or handmade fabrics/articles, certain folklore articles, and certain ethnic printed fabrics. CBP has posted to its website implementation instructions for the AGOA duty-free treatment provided to qualifying handloomed, or handmade fabrics/articles, certain folklore articles, and certain ethnic printed fabrics from Nigeria. (See ITT's Online Archives or 07/29/05 news, 05072920 for BP summary of related CITA notice) TBT-05-021, dated 07/28/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/tbts/TBT2005/tbt_05_021.ctt/tbt_05_021.doc )
3. Miscellaneous CBP Messages on AD and CV Duty Actions
CBP has issued messages on a number of antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty actions, many of which (marked by an * in the action column) were previously published in the Federal Register by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and summarized in International Trade Today.
(The CBP messages marked with an * cover much of the same information as the ITA notices; however, CBP's messages often list the 10-character case number specific to each listed company(s). ITA notices only list the 7-character master case number. In addition, sometimes the master case number for CBP purposes (in parentheses, below, where applicable) differs from the ITA master case number.)
The administrative messages listed above are availablefrom http://www.brokerpower.net/admin_messages/ (and can be searched by message number, country, product, etc.).