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

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted contact information for its headquarter press officers for national issues and Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site as of October 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 the weekly foreign currency exchange rate multipliers for the week ending October 7, 2011.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has sent a final rule on Global Entry, an international registered traveler program, to the Office of Management and Budget for approval. The Global Entry program expedites the movement of low-risk, frequent international air travelers by providing an expedited inspection process for pre-approved, pre-screened travelers. These travelers proceed directly to automated Global Entry kiosks upon their arrival in the United States. A pilot of Global Entry has been operating since June 6, 2008.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has recently updated a number of documents on the Container Security Initiative (CSI), a program which deploys multidisciplinary teams to foreign seaports to target and examine high-risk cargo before it is placed on vessels bound for the U.S. The documents indicate that the last round of operational ports were added in fiscal year 2007, and that the total number of operational CSI ports is approximately 58.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.

In the October 5, 2011 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 45, No. 41), CBP published two notices on its revocation and modification of one ruling and similar treatment regarding the classification of a digital recipe reader and five rulings and similar treatment regarding the classification of electric Christmas and Halloween light sets.

On October 6, 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Bersin spoke to the Brooklyn Law School on the security impact of 9/11 and the three subsequent cross-border terrorist plots since then. Bersin stated that segmenting traffic flows according to risk is a necessary condition of heightening border security and expediting trade. He also discussed the need to take into account the necessity for continental perimeter security which would have Canada, the U.S. and Mexico jointly identifying and intercepting dangerous people and goods as they move in global flows toward the North American continent.

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