CBP will take an outage to the ACE CERT environment on June 29, 2012 in response to trade software developer requests to deploy fixes to the ACE certification environment prior to deployment to ACE Production, the agency said in CSMS message. The outage will be from noon through 6:30 p.m. EST on June 29. CBP said it would be deploying fixes in advance of their deployment to ACE Production on July 7.
CBP has posted a revised version of its informed compliance publication entitled, "What Every Member of the Trade Community Should Know About: Footwear." (See future issue of ITT for details on changes made.)
CBP and Simplified Entry (SE) pilot participants started on June 25 a two week period of testing additional volume through the system, said CBP in its ACE Trade Account Owner update for June. The update includes articles on the transition to Rail and Sea Manifest, an update on Simplified Entry, responding to CBP Forms through the ACE Portal, access to the Shared Reports folder, keeping Entry Banks up to date, and clarification on using the In-bond Authorization functionality.
CBP's Office of Information and Technology has posted an updated list of companies/persons offering ABI data processing services to the trade community.
CBP Seattle will host a trade fair on July 19, beginning at 9 a.m., it said in a trade information notice. CBP has invited government agencies that regulation trade to participate, it said. There's no registration necessary, though IDs will be required, said a CBP Seattle source.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's web site as of June 27, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
CBP said Nogales Border Patrol agents seized marijuana hidden within a produce shipment on June 25. They found 73 bundles of marijuana mixed within crates of pumpkins and chili peppers. The driver was arrested and transported to the Nogales Station for processing. The drugs, worth an estimated $851,500, will be held for evidence.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated June 26 with 188 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 171,843. The most recent ruling is dated 6/22/2012 12:00:00 AM.
CBP said in a CSMS message it identified a needed correction to the ACE Customs Automated Manifest Interface Requirements (CAMIR) for Ocean Rail manifest, Appendix D.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated on June 16 at 8 a.m. with 174 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 171708. The most recent ruling is dated June 15, 12:00 a.m.