The following are documents which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.). Updates are listed under "What's New" on its Web site:
Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) is the CBP's electronic system through which the international trade community reports imports and exports to and from the U.S. and the government determines admissibility.
CBP has posted to its Web site an updated version of its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) road event schedule. CBP also issued an administrative message announcing upcoming ACE e-Manifest outreach events. These documents announce 9 events that have been added since BP's most recent update on ACE events:
(BP is reissuing its summary of this CBP guide, which appeared in the September 18, 2006 ITT, 06091805, 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 ACE (the Automated Commercial Environment). Other conforming changes are also made to BP's summary.)
(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 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 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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a press release announcing that its three-day Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Exchange Conference addressing ACE's modernized, secure trade processing that took place in Chicago, Illinois on August 15-17, 2006 has concluded. CBP has also posted to its Web site 27 PowerPoint presentations that were presented during the conference.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report entitled Information Technology: Customs Has Made Progress on Automated Commercial Environment System, but It Faces Long-Standing Management Challenges and New Risks.