CBP posted a set of presentations used by government agencies at the 2015 Trade Support Network conference held June 23-25:
The CBP Los Angeles Field Office again extended interim work-around procedures in response to continued problems with Automated Commercial Environment for air manifests. Through June 31, it will allow for carriers and Container Freight Station operators to accept Form 3461 signed by the broker "without fear of penalty for entries that have generated a paperless release (to include split shipments)," the field office said in a notice. CBP said some carriers are unable to see release notifications (1C), which have posed a problem since the agency transitioned from the Air Automated Manifest System into the ACE on June 7 (see 1506110007). Carriers and CFS operators may also accept screen printouts of ACE cargo entry releases submitted by the broker, said CBP. "The printout should have at a minimum the shipment ID and quantity being released as well as clear identification of who presented the release information," it said. The carriers and CFS operators may also accept signed Form 7512 when the 1C or 1D aren't posted, it said.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 23, 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.
The U.S. and China agreed to expand a memorandum of understanding on customs enforcement collaboration, said ICE in a press release (here). Bruce Foucart, director of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center and Chen Xudong, director general of the General Administration of China Customs, signed the IPR addendum, said ICE. The original MOU, signed in 2011, established a cooperative framework for prosecutions and convictions related to customs law violations, said ICE. The agreement allows the two countries to share "seizure information like commodity descriptions; quantities; values; dates of import/export; infringed trademarks; known manufacturers and shippers; container numbers; and other available information," it said.
CBP made some changes in its draft Automated Commercial Environment business process document (here), updating some sections and adding a new section about cargo that is deemed released. CBP posted a draft last month and requested industry comments (see 1505180010). The processes document is expected to function as the "cornerstone" for both the trade and port personnel, an agency official recently said (see 1504270018).
The first three Centers of Excellence and Expertise will all be handling post-release trade processing of entry summaries for their respective industries filed at certain ports as of June 29, said CBP in a notice (here). That date marks the end of the third and final transition phase, after which the Petroleum, Natural Gas and Minerals and Pharmaceuticals, Health and Chemicals CEEs will handle processing of industry tariff lines. The Electronics CEE previously finished the transition and is already processing the entry summaries for that industry (see 1504090015).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 22, 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.
CBP San Francisco will hold a seminar on "Steel Identification, Classification and Trade Law" on July 29-30, it said in an information notice. The seminar, which will include presentations from technical, commercial and legal experts from the industry, is meant to "increase the knowledge level" on steel imports for CBP officials, the trade and customs brokers, it said. The seminar will be at the Port of San Francisco, 555 Battery St., San Francisco.
A set of recent fixes for the air manifest processing in the Automated Commercial Environment has resolved a number of problems recently reported by users, said a CBP spokeswoman in an email. "The fixes put in place through June 20th have eliminated the known performance issues," she said. "CBP will continue to monitor system performance to validate that all fixes and issues have been identified and rectified." The agency recently provided an update to industry members (see 1506220016).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 19, 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.