CBP posted an updated summary of changes for the Automated Export System Trade Interface Requirements (AESTIR). The changes will be effective following the AES upgrade, which is tentatively scheduled after September. The following changes to Appendix A for Commodity Response Filing Messages, AES General Information and Part II AES Record Formats have been posted:

CBP announced the location and agenda for the next meeting of the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC), March 6 at 1 p.m. (ET) in Washington, D.C. Online registration for webcast and in-person participation is available through March 4, said a Feb. 19 notice.

CBP 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 CBP's website Feb. 13, 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 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 and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will allow for the movement of goods requiring cold treatment that were failed by the USDA to Southern New Jersey for retreatment, said CBP Field Operations in the Port of New York/Newark in Informational Pipeline 13-016. The local exemption allows APHIS to perform fruit cutting inspection in Southern New Jersey facilities and "pertains only to the circumstances affecting the CBP Port of Philadelphia and the APHIS-approved facilities in Southern New Jersey," the notice said.

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Feb. 12, 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 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 issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of Feb. 11. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, and tobacco; and certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying textile articles and/or other articles; the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc.

CBP posted a Feb. 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.

CBP and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) investigators seized multiple shipments of toys imported into San Juan, Puerto Rico, containing levels of lead that exceed legal limits, said CBP in a press release. The total domestic value for the shipments of nearly 30,000 toys is estimated to be more than $335,000, said CBP. The shipments were targeted by the CBP Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center.

All continuous or term Airport Security bonds must be submitted to the Revenue Division Bond Team, CBP.BONDQUESTIONS@DHS.GOV, in order to be processed into the Automated Commercial Environment, said CBP in a CSMS message. An Airport Security bond is not considered valid until it has been reviewed and processed into ACE by the Revenue Division Bond Team, the agency said. If the Airport Security Bond is filed using the CBP Form 301, it is considered a continuous bond and if the Airport Security Bond is filed using the CFR 19, part 113, Appendix A language, the bond is considered a term bond, which has beginning and ending dates.