CBP CSMS Messages and Web Postings
CBP has issued a CSMS message announcing that it has resolved the problem where trade users were experiencing slow response and errors when creating and submitting e-Manifests. This issue only impacted the ACE Portal. E-manifest could still be submitted via EDI. (CSMS messages, dated 03/12/09, hyperlinked, 09-000124 and 09-000122)
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1. CBP Resolves ACE Portal Problem in Creating/Submitting e-Manifests
2. March 10th Versions of Importer Security Filing Transaction Sets
CBP has posted March 10, 2009 versions of the following previously issued Importer Security Filing (ISF) transaction sets:
Cargo Release - CATAIR
Importer Security Filing - CATAIR
Entry Summary - CATAIR
Foreign Trade Zone - CATAIR
Importer Security Filing Status Advisory - CATAIR
Importer Security Filing - CAMIR - Intermodal
According to CBP, these transaction sets are final and conform to the 10+2 interim final rule. (Transaction sets, posted 03/11/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/automated/automated_systems/sf_transaction_sets/)
3. CATAIR Amendment 36 Posted
CBP has posted Amendment 36 to the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document. According to CBP, the CATAIR has been amended as follows:
Participating Government Agencies
Record Identifier PG04 (Input) - Made edits in description of "Percent of Constituent Element" data element and added "Note 2."
Appendix Q - Government Agencies Codes
Made edits throughout.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 03/10/09 news, 09031030 2, for BP summary announcing that CBP would amend PG04.)
(Amendment 36, dated March 2009 available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/automated/automated_systems/abi/catair/changes/change_36.ctt/change_36.doc)
4. CBP Posts CAMIR-Intermodal Amendment 18
CBP posted Amendment 18 to the Customs Automated Manifest Interface Requirements (CAMIR)-Intermodal. According to CBP, the CAMIR-Intermodal was amended as follows:
Appendix D - Disposition Codes
Numerous changes made throughout chapter.
Numerous changes made throughout chapter.
(Amendment 18, dated March 2009, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/automated/automated_systems/ams/camir_intermodal/changes/change_18.ctt/change_18.doc)
5. Updated TRQ/TPL "Threshold to Fill" List
CBP has posted an updated quick reference to monitor tariff rate quotas and tariff preference levels that are approaching the restraint limit or have filled the in-quota (low) rate. The list is divided into two sections - quotas that are at least 85% filled and quotas that are closed. (List, updated 03/13/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/trq_thresh_fill.ctt/trq_thresh_fill.pdf)
6. Importer Self Assessment Points of Contact
CBP has posted an updated list of telephone contacts for the Importer Self-Assessment program.
(List, dated 03/10/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/cargo_summary/trade_contacts/isa_poc.xml)
7. CBP Agriculture Specialists Capture Invasive Cogon Grass Weed Seed
CBP has issued a press release announcing that during a routine inspection on March 6, 2009 at the Baltimore seaport, CBP agriculture specialists discovered weed seeds littered among non-compliant wood packing in a container of travertine tile that arrived from Turkey. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture pest identifier database determined the seeds to be Imperata cylindrica, or cogon grass, a Federal Noxious Weed, and confirmed that this is Baltimore's first Red Baron seed report. (News release, dated 03/11/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/03112009.xml)