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CBP Administrative Messages, Web Postings, Etc.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that all Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) reports would be unavailablefrom 7 pm Monday, January 14, 2008 until approximately 7 am Tuesday, January 15, 2008 (eastern time). Preliminary Monthly Statements (PMS) were to be available on Tuesday morning January 15, 2008 and all data was to be current. CBP adds that data in other reports may not be current until 7:00 am on January 16, 2008. (Adm: 08-0001, dated 01/14/08, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/admmsgs/2008/08-0001.html)

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1. Possible Delay for ACE Reports

2. Weekly TRQ/TPL Commodity Report as of January 14, 2008

CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of January 14, 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 01/14/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)

3. New/Modified ACE EDI Messages for Release 4 Truck Manifest

CBP has posted the following new/modified ACE EDI messages for Release 4 Truck Manifest:

ANSI X.12 Message Sets:

Document AT (dated 12/24/07)

Truck Manifest 350 Message (dated 01/11/08)

UN EDIFACT Message Sets for Standard Manifest:

Customs Response Message (CUSRES) Status Notification (posted 01/08/08)

(New/modified ACE EDI messages available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/carrier_info/etruck_tech_info/ace_edi_drafts/edi_messages/)

4. Miscellaneous CBP Messages on AD and CV Duty Actions

The antidumping and countervailing messages U.S. Customs Border and Protection issues on behalf of the International Trade Administration are now only available on CBP's Web site at http://addcvd.cbp.gov. AD and CV ABI administrative messages are no longer issued.

An overview of a number of recent AD/CV messages posted to CBP's Web site, along with the case number(s), period covered, and CBP message number, are provided below. (Note that the complete message is only available at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.)