U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the following user guides for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE):
The Office of Management and Budget has approved a U.S. Customs and Border Protection final rule that would amend 19 CFR to provide that where an owner or master of a vessel documented under the laws of the United States fails to pay, within 30 days of CBP issuing the bill, the duties determined to be due that are associated with the purchase of equipment for, or repair to, the vessel while it is outside the United States, interest will accrue on the amounts owed to CBP and that person will be liable for interest.
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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS message #12-000045 announcing that due to internal issues, CBP suspended sending out 3Z messages upon acceptance of unified manifest Importer Security Filing (ISF) messages. Those messages were once again turned back on this weekend. Any future instances of missing 3Z messages should be reported to your assigned Client Representative.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of February 9, 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 the following documents on its "What's New" webpage regarding the C-TPAT and FAST programs (note that many of these documents have prior dates and appear to simply be reposted):
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection had earlier issued a CSMS message announcing that as a result of issues identified during ACE outages on February 9, 2012, CBP needed to take the ACE system down for an emergency maintenance period of up to 2 hours starting the afternoon of February 10, 2012 at 3:00 pm EST, with expected completion by 5:00 pm EST. CBP has now issued a second CSMS message #12-000043 (here) stating that the ACE Production System is again available to ACE Portal users and EDI filers.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of February 13, 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 the weekly foreign currency exchange rate multipliers for the week ending February 10, 2012.