The Port of Long Beach has reached a tentative agreement on a 40-year, $4.6 billion lease with the Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) and its U.S. subsidiaries OOCL, LLC and Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT) for the Middle Harbor property. POLB states that this would be the largest deal of its kind for any U.S. seaport and is projected to generate more than 14,000 new, permanent jobs throughout Southern California by 2020.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that a fix for the Release date formatting issue that was the subject of an earlier January 19, 2012 message was delivered and confirmed at approximately 4:00pm EST on that same date. Users should no longer receive the incorrect date format in Cargo Release Processing Results (RR). Resolution to correct the affected Release Dates will be forthcoming.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of January 20, 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 issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection 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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the following news releases related to commercial trade and related issues:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a message stating that due to problems with the URL for accessing the ACE Trade Web Based Training site on cbp.gov, CBP has created a new URL that will allow the trade to access the WBT: http://nemo.cbp.gov/ace_online.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a message to ACE Portal Accounts stating that following a code change early Wednesday morning, January 18, QP in-bond shipments that were accepted in ABI failed to appear in ACE Truck carrier portal accounts and also failed to link to EDI truck manifest shipments. CBP corrected the problem at 7:29 p.m. EST and newly-filed QP shipments are available for linking to ACE Truck manifests either by ABI or in carrier portal accounts.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of January 17, 2012.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that it is aware of an issue with release date formats being returned in Cargo Release Processing Results (RR). According to CBP, this issue is currently being investigated and an update will be provided as soon as available. (CSMS #12-000013, dated 01/19/12)