U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS Message #12-000006 advising the trade that CBP is still investigating the ACE Portal slow response issue. CBP has contacted some trade users and had them back out Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8 security patch KB2585542. This action returned these users to normal processing. CBP will provide an additional update upon completion of its investigation.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS Message #12-000004 advising that there may be an additional ACE outage beginning January 15, 2012 at 11:00PM EST and ending on January 16, 2012 at 5:00AM EST to deploy certain M1 (e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail) code. This outage is in addition to the regular scheduled ACE maintenance window.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS Message #12-000005 announcing that the Detroit Client Reps are experiencing technical difficulties with their phones at this time. They can be contacted by the following e-mail addresses or alternate phone numbers until further notice:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection for Field Operations in New York has issued an Informational Pipeline stating that, effective December 16, 2011, the JFK Entry Branch is responsible for processing all Refusal Notices issued by the Food and Drug Administration on entry summaries where the Harmonized Tariff Schedule number of the merchandise in question falls under the jurisdiction of a JFK Commodity Specialist Team (CST).
This summary report highlights the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels1 from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” It also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.”
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of January 13, 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 and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of January 12, 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.
In the January 4, 2012 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 2), CBP published a notice on its modification of a ruling and treatment regarding the tariff classification of a certain carrying cases. CBP also published a notice on its withdrawal of a revocation and modification of two rulings on the classification of a surgical light system.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message detailing the arrival "process steps and conditions" of ACE M1 (e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail) for ocean carriers using both ACE M1 and the legacy Automated Manifest System (AMS). This new functionality deployed on December 14, 2011.