CBP Posts Information On the February 2005 Trade Support Network Meeting
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site various materials related to presentations made at the January 31-February 3, 2005 meeting of the Trade Support Network (TSN).
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(CBP has been meeting with the TSN since May 14, 2001 regarding the development of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and has stated that the TSN has over 150 members of the trade community, including trade associations, importers, brokers, carriers, sureties, and others.)
Documents related to the February 2005 TSN presentations include::
Periodic Payment (Release 3): Progress and Development - this presentation addresses the number of ACE accounts, the number of ACE users, update on periodic payment activity, the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act change of the due date for Periodic Monthly Statements to 15 work days from 15 calendar days, entry types not valid for periodic monthly statement, details on scheduling statement due date, useful reports for monitoring, report improvements, portal improvements, and trade requested functionality in Release 3.
Periodic Monthly Statement: Lessons Learned - this presentation discusses various issues related to periodic monthly statement and lessons that have been learned.
News and Information on e-Manifest: Trucks (Release 4) - this presentation includes a review of e-Manifest: Trucks, a discussion of CBP's February 4, 2004 and September 13, 2004 Federal Register notices on e-Manifest: Trucks, discussions of e-Manifest and e-Release and EDI validation activities, an overview of the deployment of e-Manifest: Trucks in Blaine, WA and lessons learned from the deployment, and the status of ACE Release 4.x (the scope of which is to develop the requirements and implement changes to the current ACE baseline).
e-Manifest: Trucks - Computer Based Training Overview - this presentation provides an overview of e-Manifest: Trucks computer based training for the ACE Secure Data Portal and includes "snapshots" of various screens, as well as instructions for using the system.
Roadmap to Account Revenue and Secure Trade Data (Release 5) - this presentation addresses the scope for secure cargo management, account revenue and secure trade date in 2006, the goals and approach for the account revenue and secure trade data project, the 2004-2010 ACE Program Schedule, and descriptions of various business processes, including account management, finance, release, post release, and Automated Broker Interface (ABI), etc.
Workshop Review and Open Forum Sessions - Finance/Post Release and Accounts (Release 5) - this presentation addresses, for both finance/post release and accounts, issues such as business process scope, business process design workshops, trade workshops conducted, and upcoming trade workshops.
Legal and Policy Update - this presentation addresses the following issues: Miscellaneous Trade bill, presentation of advance electronic cargo information vs. electronic manifest, and publication of Federal Register notices (change in ACE eligibility requirements and terms and conditions document).
February 2005 TSN meeting documents available at