CBP has finished some of the initial work that will allow for entry summary quality control checks, known as edits, within the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), said CBP in its June "ACEopedia." CBP started with Harbor Maintenance Fee (HMF) validations to lay a foundation for additional validations and "developed a business rules engine that enables development teams to more easily capture, update, and maintain the business rules that govern how the validations work within the system," it said. "As development progresses and CBP gains more experience with Agile development, increasingly complex validations will be added. The second development Increment is focused on coding validations related to Classification. CBP plans to deploy Increments 1 and 2 in October 2013."
CBP New York/Newark released information in a pipeline notice showing the "cycle time measurement" of Centralized Examination Stations from April through June this year. The cycle times refer to the time from ocean container arrivals through final examination completion.
In the July 3 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 28), CBP published a notices that proposes to revoke rulings and similar treatment regarding the tariff classification of Aquadoodle draw and doodle mats.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated July 10 with 124 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 178,041. The most recent ruling is dated 07/09/2013.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is leaving the government to work as president of the University of California, she said in a statement. She will leave in early September, according to an administration official. The agency didn't say if anyone had been chosen as a replacement.
CBP's Los Angeles/Long Beach field office will make use of cargo holds in the Automated Cargo Environment (ACE) to address non-compliance with Importer Security Filing (ISF) requirements, the office said in a July 12 public bulletin. Use of the holds will begin July 15 and CBP "will hold all non-compliant ISF shipments at the terminal until the required ISF is filed, it said. CBP recently announced plans to ratchet up enforcement of ISF rules (see 13062613).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 10, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
CBP is requesting comments by Aug. 12 for an existing information collection for the Trusted Traveler Programs. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with a change to the burden hours.
CBP released its July 10 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 29). While the Bulletin does not contain any ruling articles, it does include recent general notices and Court of International Trade decisions.
In the July 3 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 28), CBP published two notices that propose to revoke or modify rulings and similar treatment regarding the tariff classification of muscle stimulation machines and plastic watch boxes.