U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted amended recommendations of COAC’s Global Supply Chain Security Land Border Subcommittee. The amended recommendations largely ask CBP to obtain input from affected stakeholders.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:

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.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the weekly foreign currency exchange rate multipliers for the week ending February 3, 2012.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a February 6, 2012 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 has 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.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that the following Customs broker licenses and all associated permits are cancelled without prejudice:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted another updated version of its 2011 Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Accomplishments Fact Sheet, which now lists a total of 42 accomplishments from January to December 2011. In October - December 2011, CBP implemented ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1) training for more than 700 CBP officers at 13 ports; began both the trade and CBP pilots in support of M1; reported successful M1 manifest receipts by a sea and rail carrier, and 13 ports began to successfully accept and process M1 manifests; and completed a draft Cargo Release functional requirements document.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a final rule, effective March 7, 2012, which adopts with some changes, its November 2009 proposed rule on the establishment of an international trusted air traveler program called Global Entry. According to a DHS press release, the final rule sets forth the regulations that replace the current Global Entry pilot with a permanent Global Entry program, provides CBP with the ability to more readily expand the program to additional U.S. international airports, and changes the age eligibility criteria to allow more families to participate in the program. Current participants in the Global Entry pilot will be automatically enrolled in the Global Entry program for five years from the date of their initial enrollment in the pilot.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has 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 3, 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.