U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials stated at the September 2011 annual NCBFAA conference that the agency is currently using the Document Imaging System internally for emailed single transaction bonds. However, they are working with select individuals to develop a plan to expand its use, and hope to issue a Federal Register notice announcing a pilot in a few months on regularly accepting STBs via DIS.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing that the following Customs broker licenses, as well as all associated permits, have been revoked with prejudice:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have issued the following news releases:

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site as of October 19, 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 is announcing that the following Customs broker licenses and all associated permits are cancelled without prejudice:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of October 17, 2011.

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 posted an updated version of its Automated Broker Interface (ABI) Error Message Dictionary, a table containing detailed explanations of the error messages that are generated when a filer's transmission is rejected by ABI.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "Using the ACE Reports Tool" user guide document, which provides instructions for importer, broker and surety ACE portal account types on running ACE reports for truck carriers. With this update, CBP has added AM-100 to the list of available reports contained in Appendix A of the document. AM-100 (for importers only) is the ACE Courtesy Notice of Liquidation report which displays liquidation information for two weeks in the future, similar to information previously mailed to the importer on the CF 4333A.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS# 11-000257 which asks trade partners to verify that they have complied with the attached instructions to implement a simple configuration change to allow the VPN connection to CBP to be pointed to new DHS data center secure VPN gateways prior to October 31, 2011. CBP has previously stated that this change will be transparent to users.