U.S. Customs and Border Protection had earlier issued a CSMS message announcing that as a result of issues identified during ACE outages on February 9, 2012, CBP needed to take the ACE system down for an emergency maintenance period of up to 2 hours starting the afternoon of February 10, 2012 at 3:00 pm EST, with expected completion by 5:00 pm EST. CBP has now issued a second CSMS message #12-000043 (here) stating that the ACE Production System is again available to ACE Portal users and EDI filers.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of February 10, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. These messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the following user guides on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE):
U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that a number of problems have recently been reported involving ABI QP inbond entries for ACE Truck Manifest shipments. CBP states the most reliable method for processing ABI QP inbonds -- whether the ACE truck manifest is filed in the ACE Portal or by EDI -- is for the carrier to report the shipment as a regular (PAPS) shipment with bill of lading details (shipper, consignee, quantity, description, etc), and allow the CBP systems to attach the ABI QP inbond to the ACE Truck shipment.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is requesting comments by April 9, 2012 on an existing information collection on Bonded Warehouse Proprietor's Submission (CBP Form 300). CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the burden hours or to CBP Form 300.
In its February 8, 2012 Customs Bulletin (Volume 46, No. 7), U.S. Customs and Border Protection published the draft agenda for the forty-ninth session of the Harmonized System (HS) Committee of the World Customs Organization, which will meet in Brussels, Belgium from March 13 - 23, 2012.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated list of non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCC) participants in the sea Automated Manifest System (AMS).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that in fiscal year 2011, it seized imports of counterfeit perfume valued at nearly $51 million. CBP’s Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) National Targeting and Analysis Group (NTAG) in Los Angeles targeted 138 commercial shipments of perfumes in FY 2011 for possible trademark infringement. Fifty-two of these shipments were seized for infringing a trademark. The domestic value of the seized shipments, which contained more than one million pieces, was nearly $8 million. If the trademark had been genuine, the manufacturer’s suggested retail price of the perfume would have been more than $45 million. The fake perfume that CBP most frequently intercepted was counterfeit “Sex in the City” perfume, which is related to the HBO movie and television series. CBP has been working with the right holder to crack down on these illegal imports. In the past year, more than 30 entities involved in the importation of counterfeit perfume have been uncovered.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is requesting comments by April 9, 2012 on an existing information collection on Country of Origin Marking Requirements for Containers or Holders. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the burden hours or to the information collected.