CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Oct. 26, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for 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 will soon ask for user feedback on it's Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), the agency said in its ACE Trade Account Owner (TAO) update for October. CBP has asked for such input the last several years, it said.
CBP posted an October fact sheet on Simplified Entry (SE), which provides information on how the SE process works, advantages to the approach and the addition of other parts within the SE pilot. The fact sheet included a new list of participants involved in the SE/Cargo Release pilot program.
CBP will start using additional agriculture hold types to to better indicate the status of cargo on agriculture hold, said CBP Seattle in a Trade Information Notice (TIN) . According to the TIN:
CBP posted a spreadsheet listing the top 5,000 importers for fiscal year 2012. The spreadsheet contains an alphabetical list of the companies names and addresses.
CBP selected 11 cargo release/simplified entry pilot participants, the agency said. The new participants are: Alliance Customs Clearance Inc., Barthco International Inc. dba OHL International, CEVA Logistics, CSI Weiss-Rohlig USA Inc., Damco Customs Services, Inc., DHL Express, Inc. (USA), Future Forwarding Company, NEC Corporation of America, Scarbrough International, Ltd., Schenker, Inc., and UTC Overseas, Inc.
CBP released its Oct. 24 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 44). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include Court of International Trade decisions.
CBP canceled the Nov. 1 Webinar on "Follow-up on Q&A’s from previous webinars," according to the CBP schedule of Webinars. The agency didn't say why it was canceled or if it would be rescheduled. The Nov. 1 Webinar was scheduled to be the last of several, which are meant to facilitate discussion with the trade community on coming changes to broker regulations in 19 CFR Part 11.
CBP posted a press release on the recent expansion of its Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS) pilot program. The release (here) mirrors the Oct. 24 Federal Register notice. CBP also corrected a mistaken email address within that Federal Register notice. The corrected email address to submit comments about the ACAS pilot is cbpccs@cbp.dhs.gov. The Federal Register notice about the correction is (here).