CBP's Updated Trade Transformation Guide Outlines Some Remaining Questions for Part 111 Rewrite
CBP posted an updated "Trade Transformation" guide, providing a list of some of the remaining questions to consider as it moves toward a rewrite of broker regulations. The document also now includes a list of Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) capabilities, descriptions of ACE goals and the impacts of certain capabilities.
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Part 111 Rewrite
The document included a summary of future plans in developing new and revised regulations for customs brokers.
- CBP will next formulate policy decisions and potential regulatory alternatives based on the feedback from the roundtables and webinars.
- CBP will be working both internally and externally to answer:
- Does CBP need to seek statutory changes?
- What should be regulatory?
- What should be in guidance?
- How do we acknowledge and reward the best practices of our highly compliant licensed customs brokers?
- CBP will then begin drafting a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and economic analysis and review existing policies to determine what regulatory amendments the agency can do without .
ACE Capabilities
| Pre-Arrival | Arrival | Post Release | Export | Finance |
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| Description of Modernized End State | - Modernizes "pipeline to deliver data
- ACE funding for Automated Targeting System Since 2001
- ACE data feeds ATS
- More info available; less inspection required
| - Enhances data available to CBP and Participating Government Agencies (PGAs)
- Allows for faster release of legitimate cargo
- "Single window" for trade and government agencies
| - Modernized data requirements for trade trade compliance validation
- Brings trade business process into single system
| - Supports National Export Initiative
- Enhances targeting for exports
- Single system for imports and exports
| - Modernizes 30-year old financial process for CBP
- Streamlines payment mechanisms
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| Delivered Capabilities | - Screening capabilities
- Truck Manifest
- Rail and Sea Manifest
| - Cargo Release/Simplified Entry
- PGA Interoperability
| - ACE Accounts and Reports
- Entry Summary Filing
- AD/CVD
- Courtesy Notice Report
- Entry Summary Corrections
- Document Image System
- Responses to CBP Forms
| - Export manifest via Document Image System
| - Monthly statement payment
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| Impact of Delivered Capabilities | - Better ID of high risk shipments
- Faster processing
- Automation of paper processes
- All rail and sea manifests in ACE
- All in-bond data for rail, ocean and truck in ACE
- Savings of $39.5 million per year for CBP processing
| - Data provided earlier
- More efficient risk identification
- Data from ACE provided to other government partners
- Automation
| - More than 60,000 ACE reports run by CBP, government partners and trade community per month
- Automated Census overrides and warnings
- Courier cost reductions of as much as 43% due to paperless filings
- Automation of required CBP report to save $3.4 million per year
| - Electronic submission of ocean carrier export manifests
- Link to targeting for enhanced screening of export cargo
- Potential saving of $20,000 per month in printing and courier costs
| - Monthly, interest-free payments for trade community
- 68 percent of duties and fees paid through ACE
- Improvements in collections, accounts receivable and financial reporting
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