U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000263 on two problems associated with the M1 (e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail) drop, one affecting the e214 filer and air in-bonds and the other affecting the 'replacement' (FT process) of FTZ admissions. CBP/OIT intends to have the fixes delivered to the production environment by the end of the month.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000269 which states that Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Niger had their African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) country benefits restored as of October 25, 2011.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is requesting comments by December 27, 2011, on an existing information collection concerning the Entry and Immediate Delivery Application (CBP Forms 3461 and 3461 ALT). CBP is proposing to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the burden hours or to the information being collected.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is requesting comments by December 27, 2011, on an existing information collection concerning Prior Disclosure. CBP is proposing to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the burden hours or to the information being collected.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000264, which contains its revised Guidance on Entry Deletion and Entry or Entry Summary Cancellation. An earlier correction notice had gone out as CSMS #11-000224.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and has issued the following news releases:

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.

This summary report highlights the most active textile and apparel tariff preference levels¹ from U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s “Quota Weekly Commodity Status Report.” It also lists the TRQ commodities on CBP’s weekly “TRQ/TPL Threshold to Fill List.” Note that the fiscal year 2012 commodity TRQs reopened for a new quota period on October 1, 2011, as did the TPLs for the CBTPA.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and has issued the following news releases:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 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.