U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a report for the trade regarding the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)/International Trade Data System (ITDS) Standard Data Set (SDS), which is updated through February 20, 2006 and is based on SDS version 4.4.
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 issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) commodity report as of February 21, 2006. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (CFTA) tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 02/21/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) commodity report as of February 13, 2006. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (CFTA) tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 02/13/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an updated notice entitled, "ACE on the Road" which lists various February - April 2006 meetings, seminars, and conferences concerning a range of Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) topics.
On February 6, 2006, President Bush transmitted to Congress his fiscal year (FY) 2007 budget. (FY 2007 is from October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) may soon implement "Phase 4", CBP's next step in enforcing mandatory advance electronic information requirements for truck carriers, as required by the Trade Act of 2002.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message which it states updates previous messages on the Period Monthly Statement (PMS) application procedures for non-portal accounts and Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) partners who hold portal accounts.
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:
The Journal of Commerce reports that CBP officials state that government agencies will begin to use the International Trade Data System (ITDS), which is an integral part of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), in late 2006. The article notes that a prominent would-be ITDS user, the Coast Guard, has begun talking with the ITDS development team. In addition, the article notes that Treasury Department officials state that agencies are beginning to see the value of seeing the data online as it's being collected at the border. (JoC dated 01/02/06, www.joc.com.)