(BP will be reissuing its summary of this CBP guide in order to delete all of CBP's references to Truck AMS (Automated Manifest System), as AMS is under ACS, and CBP's E-Manifest: Truck, though also an automated system, is under the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). Other conforming changes will also made. The corrected summary is expected to appear in the September 19, 2006 issue of ITT.)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted various notices to its Web site as follows:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a summary of the August 3, 2006 meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC).

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is announcing that USDA has authorized CBP to combine the Specialty Sugar tariff rate quotas (TRQs) for periods 5 and 6 into one limit as period 5 opened on August 17, 2006 and has not filled, and period 6 opened on August 31, 2006 and did not oversubscribe at opening moment. This change is effective immediately. A specialty sugar certificate is still required for this now combined TRQ. (QBT-06-546, dated 09/01/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2006/06_546.ctt/06_546.doc )

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a "draft" deployment schedule of land border ports with ACE e-Manifest: Truck capabilities.

CBP has posted to its Web site a notice announcing a "weekly" special import quota of 23,276,125 kg for upland cotton purchased not later than December 5, 2006 and entered under HTS 9903.52.22. The quota period is September 7, 2006 through March 5, 2007; the opening date is September 7, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. EDT, or its equivalent in other time zones.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice to its Web site inviting importers, brokers, truck carriers, and software companies and self programmers with capabilities to transmit electronic truck manifest via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) or those who are interested in providing this capability, to the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Exchange II Conference on October 30-November 2, 2006 in Tucson, Arizona.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a number of Tropical Storm Ernesto advisories to a Web page, that latest of which is dated Sept 1, 2006 (8 a.m.) See CBP's Web page at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/highlights/alerts/ernesto_advisories_lp.xml

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) commodity report as of August 28, 2006. 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) tariff preference levels (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 08/28/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)

CBP has posted to its Web site a notice announcing a "weekly" special import quota of 23,276,125 kg for upland cotton purchased not later than November 28, 2006 and entered under HTS 9903.52.21. The quota period is August 31, 2006 through February 26, 2007; the opening date is August 31, 2006 at 1:00 p.m. EDT, or its equivalent in other time zones.