"CBP revenue collections" will be among the Department of Homeland Security operations that will be exempt from an all-out agency stoppage in the event of a government shutdown Oct. 1, said a Sept. 27 detailed contingency plan issued by DHS.

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:

CBP released a detailed timeline on planned changes for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) that will come as part of its first deployment of its "agile" strategy. The agency will implement the first of seven ACE deployments on Oct. 5, it said. New capabilities will include an ACE Reports Software Upgrade, ACE Cargo Release Pilot Expansion, Partner Government Agency Message Set, Entry Summary Validations.

CBP posted a set of presentations used by government agencies during the Trade Support Network (TSN) plenary session Sept. 26 and 27.

The International Trade Administration issued its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anticircumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope and anticircumvention rulings for the period April 1, 2013, through June 30, 2013:

The Food and Drug Administration is close to finishing its high-level review of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with CBP that would allow the two agencies to share importer filing information through the International Trade Data System, said an FDA official, speaking at the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of American Government Affairs Conference Sept. 23. The MOU is now with the agency's Office of the General Counsel, which is working to address some “minor issues,” said Ted Poplawski, special assistant to the director in FDA’s Division of Import Operations.

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:

The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Cargo Release/Simplified Entry (SE) Status Notification documentation for Oct. 5 deployment was reposted online on Sept. 10 as a future ACE ABI (Automated Broker Interface) CATAIR (Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements) chapter (here), CBP said. CBP said the ACE Cargo Release/SE input documentation was reposted to include a correction to the Carrier Code in the SE16 record, which should be listed as 4AN to accommodate various codes. The certification environment is now available to trade members for testing.

CBP made a change to the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) reports Sept. 7, allowing customs brokers with an ACE Secure Data Portal account to access AM-100 liquidation reports, the agency said in a CSMS message. Previously, only the importers could access the report. CBP also issued a document outlining how to use the AM-100 report (here). The agency made the reports available to importers in 2011 (see 11092912).