U.S. Customs and Border Protection has updated its ACE ABI Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) for the Chapter on Cargo Release (Certified from an ACE Entry Summary) in order to correct the description of a data element in the H2-output record. ACE ABI 2011 Change Record, including the December 2, 2011 change, available here. Home page for ACE ABI CATAIR available here. CSMS #11-000306 notice of posted correction available here.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has updated its Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) for entry summary and related information filed through the Automated Commercial System (ACS) in order to add a new Appendix U on PGA Manifest Hold Status Messages, among other changes.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted to its website on December 7, 2011, a notice indicating that it has renamed its Center for Excellence and Expertise (CEE) for Pharmaceuticals as the "Industry Integration Center for Pharmaceuticals," and states that it is a central point of contact for inquiries and resolution of issues regarding pharmaceutical imports.

CBP has posted its fiscal year 2011 Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (also known as the "Byrd Amendment") annual report. Among other things, CBP lists $104 million in antidumping duties that are awaiting collection and then disbursement, which will occur in the year in which the monies are received.

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of December 8, 2011, 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.

In the November 30, 2011 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 45, No. 49), CBP published notices on its revocation of three rulings and treatment regarding the classification of automatic pet feeders and its modification of one ruling and revocation of treatment regarding the classification of distilled rose and orange blossom waters.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that users can now begin running the new “Multi-Modal Manifest” reports. CBP had requested that users not run these reports after e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1) was deployed in August 2011. However, the data conversion has now been completed and users can run them.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing that in the near future, a number of updates to the CAMIR and ANSI X12 sea and rail Interface Guidelines documents, which are posted on the CBP website, will occur. Importantly, the definition for empty container bill type will be expanded to state that it can only be used for carrier-owned/leased instruments of international traffic (IIT).

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of December 7, 2011, 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 an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.