CBP officers at the Rio Grande City, Texas, port of entry seized over 1,300 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $1,050,000 on July 19. The marijuana was found in a white utility trailer, which had arrived containing a manifested shipment of commercial limes. The shipment was referred to secondary for a thorough examination of conveyance and merchandise. CBP officers then discovered 244 packages of alleged marijuana weighing about 1,312 pounds, mixed in with the boxes containing the fresh limes. CBP seized the narcotics, trailer and the cartons of limes, it said.
CBP said it fixed a major Automated Commercial System (ACS) problem July 20. CBP found that ACS wasn't sending in-bond events to ACE M1, preventing ACE M1 pilot participants from clearing cargo in the port. CBP used an emergency deployment and the issue is now resolved, it said.
CBP posted a list of CBP's Twitter contacts by location. The locations include CBP Headquarters, Buffalo, Arizona, Florida, Los Angeles, New York City, North East, North West, San Diego, South Texas, West Texas, and Mid-Atlantic.
CBP listed changes to the Electronic Invoice Program (EIP)/Remote Location Filing (RLF) hybrid ineligible forms list (dated June 2011). CBP said in a CSMS message the following forms have been removed from the ineligible forms list and are eligible to be submitted to CBP via the EIP/RLF hybrid process:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's web site as of July 19, 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. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
CBP posted a reminder that it is seeking applicants for the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) and that applications should be submitted to CBP by July 27.
CBP posted an updated list of the names and CBP surety codes for the sureties found on the Treasury Department's Listing of Approved Sureties (Circular 570) dated July 1, 2012. This list includes only those sureties where a 3-digit CBP surety code has already been assigned.
CBP signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to advance information-sharing among the federal agencies to improve targeting of imports for health and safety violation, said CBP. NHTSA, the nation’s chief automotive safety agency, is the eighth federal partner to join CBP’s Import Safety Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center (CTAC), a multi-agency center for targeting commercial shipments that pose potential threats to health and safety.
CBP issued a final determination that the country of origin of Pwn Plugs for purposes of U.S. government procurement is the U.S. CBP concluded that the assembly and programming operations performed in the U.S. substantially transform the components of the projectors. The determination ran in the Federal Register July 23.
CBP released its July 18 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 30). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does list recent notices and Court of International Trade decisions.