The Coalition to Enforce Antidumping & Countervailing Duty Orders has submitted comments to the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection in advance of the December 7, 2011 COAC meeting. These comments, which are posted on U.S. Customs and Border Protection's website and addressed to COAC’s Antidumping/Countervailing Duty Subcommittee, represent the views of member U.S. industries injured by unfairly traded imports.

On December 2, 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted the draft agenda and 20 documents for its Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection (COAC) meeting on December 7, 2011. CBP has now posted another two COAC documents.

Trade Support Network (TSN) Committee members are expected to meet on December 7, 2011 to discuss a number of Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) topics, including ongoing issues with Post Summary Correction (PSC), such as its functionality in the ACE Portal, the visibility of data elements for original entry summary filers, and the possibility of using the PSC framework to transition ACS drawback to ACE.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news releases during December 1-5, 2011:

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of December 6, 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 the weekly foreign currency exchange rate multipliers for the week ending December 2, 2011.

CBP has posted a December 5, 2011 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 a December 2, 2011 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 December 2, 2011 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.

In the November 30, 2011 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 45, No. 49), CBP published a notice that proposes to revoke a ruling and similar treatment regarding the tariff classification of rooftop air conditioners for recreational vehicles.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that rail carriers will soon be sending rail manifests into the ACE M1 production environment. This requires that all brokers or self-filing importers participating in Rail Line Release create Entry Banks in ACE. The ACE Entry Bank numbers must be unique and cannot overlap with the ACS Entry Bank numbers. CBP warns that anyone currently receiving releases using Rail Line Release must create their ACE Entry Banks using the ACE Secure Data Portal as soon as possible. Refer to the User Guide in CSMS #11-000208 dated 09/02/11 for more information, or reach out to your Port Entry Bank contact.(CSMS #11-000302, dated 12/05/11)