Reminder: Sunset Date for CBP's 800 Dial-Up Service is September 30, 2007
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message reminding the trade community that 800 Dial-Up service1 for connecting to CBP's automated systems will expire on September 30, 2007. According to CBP, this includes connections to the following CBP automated systems:
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Automated Broker Interface (ABI)
Automated Manifest System (AMS) - Sea and Air
Automated Export System (AES)
In April 2007, CBP issued an ABI administrative message and posted a notice to its Web site announcing that it would be finalizing the replacement of the existing 800 Dial-Up and Sprint Frame Relay/MQ Series services that currently support older trade system interfaces to the Automated Commercial System (ACS) and AES. CBP established September 30, 2007 as the final sunset date for the 800 Dial-Up service to end. The sunset date for the Sprint Frame Relay/MQ Series users was set for August 31, 2008.
Users Who Do Not Convert by Sept 30 Risk Losing Ability to Connect to CBP
In its most recent message, CBP notes that users who have not converted away from using the 800 dial-up communications by September 30, 2007 are at risk of losing their ability to connect to CBP's automated systems.
CBP's "Trade VPN Solution" Must be Used Instead
As previously stated by CBP, the trade will need to implement one of the following five methods, which are referred to as the "Trade Virtual Private Network Solution," for communicating to CBP, prior to the above-listed sunset dates:
Public Internet Cisco VPN/MQ Series via a client provisioned Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Sprint or Verizon Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLs) VPN, a private CISCO VPN/MQ Series solution
Service Center
Value Added Networks (VANs)
VPN via a toll free dial where an ISP is not accessible
In order to enroll for CBP VPN connectivity, the trade should contact their assigned client representative. Additional support documentation is provided to afford the trade and their software vendors an opportunity to select the CBP VPN solution that best meets a company's needs. (This additional support documentation is available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/operations_support/automated_systems/data_comm_changes/.)
(See ITT's Online Archives or 05/02/07 news, 07050205, for BP summary announcing these sunset dates. See ITT's Online Archives or 06/18/07 news, 07061810, for BP reminder on these sunset dates.)
1The 800 dial-up service has also been referred to as RJE dial-up support or RJE/LU6.2 connections by CBP.
CBP ABI message (Adm: 07-0169, dated 07/27/07) available at http://www.brokerpower.com/admmsgs/2007/07-0169.html.