CBP has issued a notice providing information regarding its four drawback center locations (Chicago, Houston, New York/Newark, and San Francisco). CBP's notice lists each center and provides contact information for each one.
An overview of a number of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, is provided below. (Note that the complete message is only available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)
CBP has issued a memorandum regarding the USTR's recent announcement of country-specific reallocations of the fiscal year 2010 in-quota quantity of the TRQ for imported raw cane sugar. USTR recently announced country-by-country allocations of a second additional fiscal year 2010 in-quota quantity of the TRQ in the amount of 272,155 metric tons raw value in specified amounts to 25 countries. (See ITT's Online Archives or 07/08/09 news, 10070804, for BP summary.)
CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that it has identified an issue in which the bar code is not being displayed on cover sheets for truck e-Manifest. This has not affected any other system processing and manifests can still be filed as usual and trucks can still be processed at border ports. Further information will be provided as it becomes available.
CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that on July 18, 2010, the Importer Security Filing (ISF) system was unavailable for several hours beyond the scheduled maintenance window ending at 3 am. The system was made available again at approximately 8:15 am. All messages that had been queued up during the maintenance window and during the unplanned outage were processed after the system came back online.
CBP has issued a CSMS message regarding a problem with end-dating of Industry 57 - Biological Products product codes. FDA has previously advised the trade that a large number of product codes would be end-dated. CBP states that due to a glitch in the CBP/FDA Interface, only some of these codes have been removed from the CBP product code database.FDA is working with CBP to resolve this issue and expects a solution to be implemented in two weeks. In the meantime, CBP states that it is imperative that ABI filers do not send any of these codes. Entries containing these codes will pass CBP edits but cause a processing error at FDA. CBP states that there is no way to correct such entries and filers will have to cancel them and resubmit using a current, valid product code.
An overview of a number of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, is provided below. (Note that the complete message is only available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)
CBP posted an updated list of the interest rates (updated for the third quarter of 2010) for additional duty payments owed to Customs as a result of reconciliation. CBP notes that when a reconciliation results in additional monies owed CBP, the payment must be made with interest, calculated by the filer using the rates provided in the list.
CBP has issued a CSMS message announcing that the FDA's OASIS import system will be down for maintenance on Saturday, July 17, 2010, starting at approximately 01:00 am ET (0100) and is not anticipated to be back up until 10:00 pm ET (2200). As a result, FDA will be operating under the Prior Notice Contingency - Scenario 2. CBP states that due to the length of this downtime, it may take some extra time for FDA field staff to perform FDA entry review and make admissibility “801(a)” decisions once OASIS becomes available. It is also possible that FDA field staff may need to rescind system "May Proceeds" issued right after the downtime is over. Notification of these "May Proceed" rescinds will be provided to filers. (See message for details on procedures to be followed during outage.)
CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that it will modify the daily statement output (Application Code QR) Q2 record to display a new electronic invoice indicator. The new field will alert the trade that an electronic invoice is required for an ACS entry summary transmitted with an electronic indicator (e.g, an ACS EIP entry filed locally or remotely).