The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's Office released an audit report recommending improved security verification procedures for truckers approved within the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program. CBP said it concurred with the report and is working on the issues.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection released its June 13 Customs Bulletin. While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does list recent general notices and Court of International Trade decisions.

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 June 11, 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.)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a June 11 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 issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of June 11.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said June 11 it resolved some issues with Importer Security Filing (ISF) filings and the backlog is being processed. CBP received some reports from ABI filers that they are not getting ISF responses and, in some cases, cargo selectivity responses. CBP also got reports that cargo that usually receives a "paperless" release is now received "docs required" message.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted documents on changes to the Customs and Trade Interface Requirements (CATAIR) Appendix G, which lists common errors. Changes include the addition of a new code list for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), and removed code related to ‘Importation & Transportation of Controlled Material & Organisms and Vectors Restriction and Precaution statement (VS16-6)’, etc. CBP also recently posted the change record for the CATAIR chapter on the PGA Message Set.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a CSMS message the ACE certification environment will be unavailable June 13 from 6 a.m.until 11 a.m. ABI software developer requested that CBP deploy fixes to the ACE certification environment prior to deployment to ACE Production, scheduled for June 23.