CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:

CBP is extending the comment period to July 10 on four new collections of information, for electronic ocean, air and train export manifests and export vessel stow plans, it said. It's also extending existing information collections for cargo manifest/declaration, stow plans, container status messages and Importer Security Filings. CBP proposes (here) to extend the expiration date of these information collections with a change to the burden hours or information collected.

CBP Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske named Matthew Klein as CBP assistant commissioner in the Office of Internal Affairs, said CBP in a press release (here). Klein, previously a commander in the Washington police department, will "continue efforts to increase transparency and improve accountability" and oversee "recently designated Special Agents with delegated criminal investigative authority," said Kerlikowske.

CBP scheduled an "emergency" Automated Commercial Environment outage for the early morning of June 9 to fix problems with the Air Manifest system, said CBP in a CSMS message (here). "CBP ports will remain in a facilitative posture as we continue to evaluate system performance," said CBP in a later CSMS message (here). "Once CBP determines the system is stable and performing as designed, ports will return to normal operations."

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 June 5, 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 listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 4, 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 is extending the comment period until July 6 on an existing information collection for customs declarations. CBP proposes (here) to extend the expiration date of this information collection without a change to the burden hours or information collected.

The National Marine Fisheries Service announced it will soon begin a pilot to test filing in the Automated Commercial Environment (here). The pilot will test filing of both partner government agency (PGA) message set data elements and scanned images in the Document Imaging System (DIS) for three NMFS programs: the Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Program, which includes tuna and swordfish; the Antarctic Marine Living Resources (AMLR) program, which covers toothfish (Dissostichus species); and the NOAA Tuna Tracking and Verification Program (NOAA Form 370), which covers a variety of canned, frozen, pouched and other processed tuna but not fresh tuna. The joint NMFS-CBP pilot will begin “after July 1,” said the announcement.

In the May 27 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 21) (here), CBP published notices that propose to revoke or modify a ruling and similar treatment for the marking of country of origin of wristwatches.