CBP has posted an update on the progress of the southwest border fence construction. According to CBP, as of August 6, 2010, CBP has completed roughly 648.1 miles of fencing (349.2 miles of primary pedestrian fence and 298.8 miles of vehicle fence) along the Southwest Border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message stating that revised ACE ABI CATAIR chapters for an upcoming ACE deployment will soon be posted to CBP's website.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice providing information on Automated Export System (AES) partnership interfaces.
CBP has posted the second issue of its of “Notes from the Logbook,” a newsletter from Laboratories and Scientific Services (LSS). This issue provides information on LSS mobile operations.
CBP has posted an updated version of its Public Automated Commercial System FIRMS (Facilities Information and Resources Management Systems) report that is organized by port code and alphabetically by company name.
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of August 16, 2010. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, and tobacco; and certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs; etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying textile articles and/or other articles; the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics; etc.
CBP 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.
On August 10, 2010, the Port of Long Beach hosted a workshop for contractors and other industry members on the process of designing and building the replacement for the Gerald Desmond Bridge. The Port has posted a flier and the PowerPoint presentation from the meeting. An archived webcast of the meeting will soon be available at www.polb.com/webcast.
CBP has issued the following news releases:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection invites comments on an information collection concerning, among other things, the proposed revision of CBP Form 301 in order to accurately reflect the changes that have occurred with regard to CBP bonds. The revised Form 301 will capture the new types of bonds which have been authorized, as well as better harmonize this form with current and future automation system requirements. Comments are due by October 18, 2010.