U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) will be observing the Cesar Chavez holiday and all berths at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will be closed on April 2, 2012. CBP offices will be open. CBP later clarified that there will be terminals open in the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex on April 2. Interested parties should contact the individual terminal to determine if cargo operations will take place at that terminal on April 2.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the April 2012 Change Log for the Customs Automated Manifest Interface Requirements (CAMIR) and 309 Customs Manifest.

The Foreign Trade Zones Board is issuing the following notices for March 30:

Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was last updated March 26, 2012 8:11:46 PM with 201 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 171152. The most recent ruling is dated March 26, 2012 12:00:00 AM.

The September 29, 2012, cutoff date for use of Automated Manifest System/Automated Commercial System (AMS/ACS) will affect non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCCs), terminal operators, port authorities and other entities that receive secondary party notifications in addition to master vessel operator common carriers (MVOCCs). As of Sept. 29, 2012, Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) will be the only acceptable electronic data interchange (EDI).

This summary report highlights the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s March 26, 2012 “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” It also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly March 26, 2012 “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.”¹

The following Port of Export code has been ADDED to the Automated Export System:

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of March 28, 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.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of March 26, 2012.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) review on e-Manifest: Trucks. It provides information on how to store account information in the ACE, mandatory exemptions, submitting an e-Manifest, in-bond shipment information, etc.