U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's January 25, 2012 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 5) contains four notices of ruling actions, as follows:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #12-000023 to provide information on the recently released Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8 security patch KB2585542, which is incompatible with the current Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) application and has resulted in slow Portal performance. CBP states it is investigating the conflict and hopes to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. CBP has provided an interim solution for trade consideration and determination, which involves the removal of the security patch. If this temporary solution is selected, CBP states users should work with their local IT resources to perform the removal. If users determine to effectuate the removal, CBP has provided the following steps:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of January 27, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. These messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted two fact sheets on the benefits of its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) for service providers and truck carriers, which include the following:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection for Field Operations at the Port of New York/Newark has issued an Informational Pipeline to provide instructions to the importing community on how to obtain relief through the administrative refund process at the time of request for the deletion/cancellation of an entry. According to the Pipeline, PEAs will not be accepted for this process.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that the Miami Client Representative office has recently moved to a new location. Additionally, the office has new phone numbers. Effective immediately, the following address, email addresses and phone numbers should be used to contact the Client Representatives:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated list of non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCC) participants in the sea Automated Manifest System (AMS).