U.S. Customs and Border Protection's July 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update (Version 2) states that it plans to announce a six-month time frame for ACS to be decommissioned for ocean and rail manifests. This six month period will initiate from operational acceptance by CBP's Executives, following rigorous review and testing, of ACE as the replacement system for ocean and rail manifests.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's July 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update (Version 2) states that the e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail (M1) Trade Pilot is expected to start in September 2011, and that CBP will initiate its rollout to the ports in October 2011, starting with Buffalo, Baltimore, and Brownsville.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, is provided below. these messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
CBP has issued the following news releases:
CBP has issued a CSMS message announcing that FDA’s OASIS import system downtime, scheduled for July 30, 2011, has been cancelled and the maintenance will be rescheduled at a later date. According to CBP, the downtime was cancelled in an effort to ensure that transmissions would not be interrupted twice in one week. (On July 29, 2011, the link between FDA and CBP was temporarily interrupted.) (CSMS#11-000171)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that the Food and Drug Administration is no longer operating under the Contingency 1 scenario that was described in CSMS 11-000168. The trade is now receiving FDA messages for ABI transmissions. This message was issued on July 29, 2011 at 4:51 pm eastern time. (CSMS 11-000170)
In the July 27, 2011 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 45, No. 31), CBP published three notices that propose to revoke or modify five rulings regarding the tariff classification of certain salad spinners, steel furniture lifters, and fishing wader tops for boots.
On July 28, 2011, the Boston office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection stated that cargo shipments of rice that started its voyage or flight on or before July 30, 2011 (the effective date of certain new restrictions), and arriving without the required Phytosanitary Certificate with an additional Declaration stating "The shipment was inspected and found free of Khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium)" will be permitted entry as long as all other entry importation requirements are met.
On July 27, 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner Aguilar hosted a Trade Day forum with several groups, including Businesses for a Better Border, also known as B3.1 Among other things, CBP states that a pilot using single application requirements for Canada's Partners in Protection Program (PIP) and CBP's Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) was very successful and that CBP is looking at expanding the pilot in September.2
CBP has posted an updated version of its Public Automated Commercial System FIRMS (Facilities Information and Resources Management Systems) report that is organized by port code and alphabetically by company name.