U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of April 9.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement reports that Collier Bennett Harper of Lakewood, CA, is expected to make his initial appearance in federal court Monday morning following his arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents for importing more than 1,000 counterfeit Microsoft Office CD-ROMs and selling them over the Internet. Taken into custody late Friday, Collier is charged in a four-count federal indictment following the seizure of two shipments of Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2007 software CD-ROMs. Specifically, the indictment charges Harper with two counts of trafficking counterfeit goods and two counts of smuggling. If convicted of all charges, Harper faces a maximum sentence of 60 years in federal prison.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection approved Intertek USA, Inc. as a commercial gauger and laboratory, according to a notice on public inspection scheduled to run in the Federal Register April 11. Intertek is approved to gauge and accredited to test petroleum and petroleum products, organic chemicals and vegetable oils for customs purposes, in accordance with the provisions of 19 CFR 151.12 and 19 CFR 151.13, the notice said. Inquires regarding the specific test or gauger service this entity is accredited or approved to perform may be directed to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection by calling (202) 344-1060.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection will seek comments on an extension of existing information gathering regarding Cargo Container and Road Vehicle Certification for Transport under Customs Seal, according to a notice published in the Federal Register April 10. Comments are due June 11. CBP proposes the extension of time without change to the burden hours.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said there was an incident in ACE M1 Production on April 10 between the hours of 1 a.m. and 4:15 a.m. EST that resulted in some Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages failing for 096 RUN HAS BEEN TERMINATED errors. CBP said the issue has been resolved and to re-submit any input jobs that resulted in that message.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is seeking additional comments by May 10, 2012 on an existing information collection on the transfer of cargo to a container station. CBP is proposing to extend this information collection with no change to the burden hours or information collected.

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 April 6, 2012, 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 posted an April 2012 presentation on its progress with various ACE capabilities and other projects, such as the Document Image System, PGA Message Set, e-Manifest: rail and Sea (M1), ACE Truck, Automated Export Processing etc. With this update, CBP provides an outline of its goals for 2012 and beyond.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 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 U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of April 5, 2012, 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.