U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a list of the following Web site, email, and phone resources regarding the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE):
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.
The Journal of Commerce reports that U.S. Customs and Border Protection will soon announce in the Federal Register that it is eliminating the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) requirement that importer accounts have bond riders and make periodic duty payments, thus opening ACE up to nearly all comers. (JoC, dated 08/29/05, www.joc.com )
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a notice announcing that the next meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection and Related Functions (COAC) will be held on October 6, 2005 in Redondo Beach, CA. (This committee was previously called the 'Treasury Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of the U.S. Customs Service.")
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted to its Web site its quarterly report on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) entitled Report to Congress: The Automated Commercial Environment. This report is dated March 31, 2005 and covers the January 1, 2005 - March 31, 2005 period.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a new "Trade Engagement Biweekly Reports" which summarize topics discussed during workshops held to develop the business requirements for Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Release 5.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted to its Web site its quarterly report on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) entitled Report to Congress: The Automated Commercial Environment. This report is dated March 31, 2005 and covers the January 1, 2005 -March 31, 2005 period.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that system changes were made to the periodic daily statement program to allow summaries with Census warnings to appear on the periodic daily statement. CBP states that prior to the above changes, summaries with Census warnings were excluded from the periodic statement program. According to CBP, summaries associated with periodic statement will have a payment type indicator of 6, 7, or 8. The payment type indicator is located in the entry summary record identifier 30 (input), in position 53. (See today's ITT, 05080805, for BP summary of CBP general notice on this and other changes to periodic statement.) (Adm: 05-0900, dated 08/04/05, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2005/2005-0900.ADM.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a new set of frequently asked questions and answers (FAQs) about the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice announcing that the next two groups, or clusters, of ports to be deployed for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)/National Customs Automation Program (NCAP) test concerning the transmission of automated truck manifest data are the Douglas, AZ and Pembina, ND clusters.
According to Washington Trade Daily, H.R. 3283, which among other things, would have allowed the Commerce Department to impose countervailing duty laws on nonmarket economies such as China, failed to pass the House by the two-thirds majority needed under special suspension of the rules procedures. The article reports that Congressional sources state that H.R. 3283 will be brought up under "regular order" on July 27, 2005. (WTD, dated 07/27/05, www.washingtontradedaily.com )