On Aug. 11 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Aug. 12:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Aug. 4-10:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Aug. 11, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
A technical issue in the Automated Commercial Environment affected entry summary processing on Aug. 12 from about 12:50 a.m. until 1:50 a.m., said CBP. Filers who submitted an ACE entry summary (AE) to ACE production during this time and did not receive an AX response should resubmit the AE to ACE, it said.
CBP is extending the comment period until Sept. 12 for an existing information collection on the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) regulations. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with a change to the burden hours. The estimated number of responses was lowered from 3,000 to 2,400.
CBP Los Angeles/Long Beach will hold a trade forum on Aug. 27 at 9:30 a.m. to discuss entry and broker compliance procedures at the Port of LA/LB. The program will cover broker licensing, the role of the broker, broker visits, and best practices for cancellation requests, TIBs and resolution requests. The presentation will be held at the Port of Los Angeles Administrative Building at 425 Palos Verdes Street in San Pedro, California. Reservations are required, and will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis until a maximum of 120 attendees is reached. To register, call George Sebastian at (562) 366-3825. Questions should be directed to Acting Entry Branch Chief Vera Warren at (562) 366-5406.
CBP New York/Newark released statistics in a pipeline notice showing the "cycle time measurement" of Centralized Examination Stations from April through June. The cycle times refer to the time from ocean container arrival, as transmitted via the Automated Commercial Environment, through final examination completion release date.
CBP recently issued a Partner Government Agency (PGA) Message Set manual for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The manual includes CATAIR codes to be used by importers of motor vehicles and parts for submitting the required HS-7 declaration in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Automated Broker Interface (ABI).