U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its CF 1400 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Entrances) - an electronic query report for CF 1400 of the Vessel Management System (VMS), in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by entrances. CBP has also posted an updated CF 1401 (Record of Vessel in Foreign Trade Clearances) - an electronic query report for CF 1401 of the VMS, in accordance with 19 CFR 4.95, organized by clearances.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that FY 2011 distributions under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (CDSOA, commonly referred to as the Byrd Amendment) are expected to be processed by November 29, 2011. In addition, it preliminary calculates that the withholding required by the Claims Resolution Act on the CDSOA for FY 2011 will be $7.95 million.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection states that officers in Chicago made an interesting discovery in outbound mail of a live Vietnam-era military incendiary device that was being shipped to Japan. CBP officers found the device while examining outbound mail packages. The item was manifested as a “military training dummie” valued at $55 and was being shipped from Missouri to Japan.
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 #11-000279 to announce the dates for its two technical seminars for trade software developers. One will target ocean and rail software developers and will focus on CAMIR and X12 message formats that are required as part of the M1 Ocean and Rail Manifest Deployment. The second seminar will target ABI participants and will focus on current and future ACE deployments. The seminars will be on November 29-30, 2011 and December 1-2, 2011 in the D.C. metro area. The anticipated cost is $120 per person, and no more than 3 from a company can attend. Hotel and payment information will be provided.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the weekly foreign currency exchange rate multipliers for the week ending November 4, 2011.
Sources at U.S. Customs and Border Protection state that the late October "limited deployment" testing of M1 (ocean and rail e-manifest) user screens by CBP officers at the ports of Baltimore, MD; Buffalo, NY; and Brownsville, TX did not start as planned, and a new schedule is expected to be announced soon. This pilot test will allow CBP officers to assess the use of M1 by its officers and early adopters in the trade.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000278 which states that they are still working to resolve a QX/WX Air In-Bond application issue uncovered in the production system. That application was deployed on August 8 but then was disabled when the problems was discovered. Development of the fix to resolve the issue is now complete and is being tested internally. CBP says it currently does not have a tentative timeline for deployment due to the on-going ACE M1 testing, but as soon as a reliable date is determined, the agency will send out a new CSMS announcing the date.
In the November 2, 2011 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 45, No. 45), CBP published two notices that propose to modify two rulings and similar treatment regarding the tariff classification of jewelry boxes covered in plastic-coated paper and a certain carrying case.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site as of November 3, 2011, 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.