U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the February 2008 Automated Commercial Environment Trade Account Owner (TAO) monthly update as an attachment to an ACE Portal Accounts CSMS message.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a Truck Manifest CSMS message announcing that it has resolved the problem with ACE Truck Manifest not generating truck manifest EDI status notifications.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a memo providing proration and liquidation instructions for the 2008 in-quota (low duty) tariff-rate quota quantity for tuna and skipjack (tuna), in airtight containers, not in oil, weighing with their contents not over 7 kilograms each, that is not the product of any U.S. insular possession.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ACE Portal Accounts CSMS message providing, as an attachment, the February 2008 ACE Trade Account Owner (TAO) monthly update.
U.S. Customs and Border and Border Protection has posted an additional chapter and two appendices to its "ACE ABI CATAIR" document that it is building to replace the current Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of March 10, 2008. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, 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, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 03/10/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
The following were posted to CBP's Web site:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the following 2008 new/modified ACE EDI messages for Release 4 Truck Manifest:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE on the Road" event schedule, which includes the following:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a press release announcing the creation of a new Import Surveillance Division at the CPSC as part of its new import strategy and to increase CPSC presence at the ports.