U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site an Automated Commercial Electronic Manifest Development Report for Release 4 (e-Manifest: Truck).

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site presentations for the 11 sessions that will be held during the upcoming Automated Commercial Environment Exchange V conference scheduled for June 4-6, 2007 in Buffalo, NY.

The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.). Updates are listed under "What's New" on its Web site:

CBP has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that the final version of the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) "TI" chapter (CBP Form 5106 add/update) will be included in the on-line CATAIR. No changes were made since the draft chapter was posted to the CBP Web site on February 15, 2007. (See ITT's Online Archives or 03/13/07 news, 07031325 2, for BP summary announcing the posting of the draft CATAIR chapter on CBP Form 5106, which includes a link to the draft chapter.)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a notice which announces the phased enforcement of mandatory Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes at all land border ports in Idaho and Montana beginning August 6, 2007.

CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of May 21, 2007. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain BFTA, CAFTA-DR, JFTA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, CAFTA-DR, CBTPA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (Chile FTA) 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 05/21/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)

The Government Accountability Office has issued a report to the Senate Finance Committee in order to address concerns regarding previously identified weaknesses in U.S. Customs and Border Protection's in-bond¹ system.

In the beginning of May 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted to its Web site a notice announcing the phased enforcement of mandatory Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes at all land border ports in Michigan and New York beginning May 24, 2007.

CBP has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that on May 17, 2007, at approximately 3:15 EDT, the remaining unsent preliminary Periodic Monthly Statements (PMSs) for May 2007 were identified and properly routed. (On May 16th CBP announced that due to a systems problem, some preliminary PMSs were not issued on the 15th.)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued two ABI administrative messages regarding the May 2007 preliminary Periodic Monthly Statement (PMS).