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

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a document that provides additional guidance on the Entry Summary capabilities deployed in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) in 2009. This guidance covers release on an ACE entry summary and receiving information on entry summaries filed in ACE.

On October 4, 2011, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official testified before the House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security. In his testimony, the official stated that over the past two years, the Department of Homeland Security has dedicated historic levels of personnel, technology, and resources to the Southwest border. Among other things, DHS has more than doubled the size of the Border Patrol since 2004; tripled the number of Border Liaison Officers working with their Mexican counterparts; doubled personnel assigned to Border Enforcement Security Task Forces; and began screening southbound rail and vehicle traffic for the illegal weapons and cash that are helping fuel the cartel violence in Mexico.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on the potential closure of the Morses Line, VT border crossing located within the port limits of the port of entry of Highgate Springs/Alburg, Vermont. CBP officers are stationed at the Morses Line border crossing to accept entries of merchandise, collect duties, and enforce various provisions of the customs and immigration laws. Based on the age of the facility, internal analyses, feedback from individuals in the local community, and consultation with members of Congress, CBP is evaluating the potential closure of the Morses Line border crossing. Comments are due December 4, 2011.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has re-posted the following links on ACE e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail (M1), which was deployed on August 27, 2011: (1) Information Notice (here); (2) Web-Based Training (here); (3) In-Bond Authorization (here); and (4) Creating and Maintaining Entry Banks (here).

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials recently stated that the agency is "on track" to fully deploy e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail (M1) at the end of January 2012. The agency has done a lot of testing and is ahead of schedule internally to meet this deadline. In addition, a group of three carriers is waiting for the go-ahead to send manifests in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), which can be set up in a three-week time frame.

According to officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency is continuing to roll out new Importer Security Filing (10+2) capabilities every month. For example, in the next several months, ACE Portal ISF reports will be married to the ACE Portal importer reports for entry summaries, so all that information will be in one big report and the information from each report will not have to be correlated.

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site as of October 4, 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 issued the following news releases:

The Port of Long Beach has stated that it anticipates beginning construction in late 2012 on the Gerald Desmond Bridge Replacement Project, which will replace the existing 43-year-old structure in the Port. Construction would continue for approximately five years and the existing bridge will remain open until the new span has been completed.