U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that the following individual Customs broker licenses and any and all associated permits have been canceled due to the death of the broker:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that a data communications problem at the CBP Data Center is currently affecting some trade partners (ABI and EDI data for all FAST truck manifests and other ACE truck manifests). CBP will provide an update as additional information becomes available. (CSMS #12-000097, dated 03/20/12)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice stating that if Ocean Manifest Users are not yet filing their ocean manifest data via ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea, nor testing to become certified, it's now time to take action.
In the March 14, 2012 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 12), CBP published a notice on its withdrawal of a proposed ruling revocation on the phrase "cut but not set" in HTS Chapter 71 for tumbled semi-precious gemstones, and treatment CBP previously accorded to substantially identical transactions.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that the CBP Network is experiencing intermittent connectivity issues affecting Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections to the CBP Mainframe environment. CBP will issue a message when this issue has been resolved. (CSMS #12-000098, dated 03/20/12)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that on March 12, 2012 it began distributing the portion of the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (CDSOA, commonly referred to as the Byrd Amendment) funds1 that it did not disburse in April 2011 due to pending litigation. According to CBP, the distribution process will continue until each fiscal year from 2006 through 2010 has been completed. CBP states that, in the event that it does not ultimately prevail in the ongoing litigation, affected domestic producers may be required to return some or all of the funds they have received.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of March 16, 2012, 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 an updated summary of changes for the Automated Export System Trade Interface Requirements (AESTIR). Most recently, the following changes to Appendix A on Commodity Response Filing Messages have been posted.