U.S. Customs and Border Protection reminded ACE users of a coming outage in a CSMS message. CBP said due to a major hardware upgrade, the ACE certification environment will be unavailable beginning June 1, 2012 at 15:00 EDT through June 3, 2012 at 23:59 EDT. This upgrade won't impact ACE Production, said CBP.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued its May 30 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 23), which contains 2 notices of ruling actions. The ruling actions are as follows:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of May 29.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a May 21 version of its CF 1400 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Entrances) electronic query report of the Vessel Management System (VMS), in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by entrances. CBP also posted a version of its CF 1401 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Clearances) electronic query report of the VMS, in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by clearances.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a clarification for M1 carriers using the in-bond authorization functionality in ACE. T
In the May 16, 2012 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No.21), CBP published a notice of its modification of rulings and revocation of treatment regarding the tariff classification of certain lighting fixtures.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a CSMS message announcing the issuance of Harmonized System Update 1206 on changes to the 2012 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). This update contains 13,572 ABI records and 2,681 harmonized tariff records.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it is aware that ABI filers are receiving "Docs Req'd" messages on entry summaries that normally would get a "paperless" response. CBP said it is working on the issue.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a CSMS message announcing the issuance of Harmonized System Update 1206 on changes to the 2012 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS). This update contains 13,572 ABI records and 2,681 harmonized tariff records.
In the May 16, 2012 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No.21), CBP published two notices of its revocation and/or modification of its rulings and treatment regarding the tariff classification of air fresheners and certain gas generators