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 January 20, 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 country-specific in-quota allocations for the fiscal year 2012 raw cane sugar tariff rate quota which opened on September 1, 2011 (a month earlier than the usual entry date of October 1). The in-quota quantity of the TRQ for FY 2012 is 1,117,195 metric tons raw value. CBP has created a webpage for the 2012 sugar allocations and other TRQs, which CBP plans to update in lieu of issuing individual Quota Book Transmittals (QBTs) to the trade.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that a fix for the Release date formatting issue that was the subject of an earlier January 19, 2012 message was delivered and confirmed at approximately 4:00pm EST on that same date. Users should no longer receive the incorrect date format in Cargo Release Processing Results (RR). Resolution to correct the affected Release Dates will be forthcoming.

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

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its TRQ/TPL "threshold to fill" list, a quick reference to monitor TRQs and TPLs that are approaching their restraint limit or have filled their in-quota (low) rate. The list is divided into two sections: those that are at least 85% filled and those that are filled.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of January 17, 2012.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that it is aware of an issue with release date formats being returned in Cargo Release Processing Results (RR). According to CBP, this issue is currently being investigated and an update will be provided as soon as available. (CSMS #12-000013, dated 01/19/12)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a message stating that due to problems with the URL for accessing the ACE Trade Web Based Training site on cbp.gov, CBP has created a new URL that will allow the trade to access the WBT: http://nemo.cbp.gov/ace_online.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a message to ACE Portal Accounts stating that following a code change early Wednesday morning, January 18, QP in-bond shipments that were accepted in ABI failed to appear in ACE Truck carrier portal accounts and also failed to link to EDI truck manifest shipments. CBP corrected the problem at 7:29 p.m. EST and newly-filed QP shipments are available for linking to ACE Truck manifests either by ABI or in carrier portal accounts.