CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The American Association of Exporters and Importers is seeking an extension of the deadline for comments on the Food and Drug Administration’s ACE filing procedures, it said in a letter to the agency dated Aug. 9 (here). Commending FDA for issuing a proposed rule June 30 that outlines the agency’s newly mandatory ACE requirements (see 1606300020), AAEI nonetheless said the trade community needs more time to respond. Importers are still managing the impact of FDA’s ACE deadline of June 15 and CBP’s July 23 deadline for quota, and haven’t had the time to develop complete responses to FDA’s notice, it said. Industry also needs more time to discuss new data elements required by FDA with service providers like customs brokers and express carriers, the letter said. AAEI requested another 60 days to respond to FDA’s proposed rule. Comments are currently due Aug. 30.
CBP is considering changes to its regulatory requirements for importing vehicles and engines in order to "harmonize" the forms required by the Environmental Protection Agency, CBP said in a notice (here). "In an effort to provide consistency in the administration of CBP’s vehicle and engine imports program so that importers of both road vehicles and engines, as well as stationary and nonroad engines (including engines incorporated into vehicles or equipment), are subject to the same filing and recordkeeping requirements, CBP is proposing to conform the entry filing requirements applicable to the EPA Declaration Form 3520-21 to those that currently exist for EPA Declaration Form 3520-1," it said. The proposal would require that importers of "stationary, nonroad or heavy-duty highway engines (including engines incorporated into vehicles or equipment) file EPA Declaration Form 3520-21 at the time of entry, unless exempt," it said. Importers with a valid EPA Certificate of Conformity that manufacture nonroad or stationary engines labeled to show compliance with emission standards would be exempt from the form 3520-21 filing requirements, CBP said.
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CBP issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
The National Marine Fisheries Service will use Sept. 20 as the deadline for all electronic filing of import data in ACE, and export data in the Automated Export System, for products regulated by the agency, it said (here). On that date, NMFS will end its ACE import pilot and AES export pilot, and require ACE or AES for electronic import and export filings, including the NMFS partner government agency (PGA) message set, document imaging system (DIS) submissions, and a check for the new consolidated International Fisheries Trade Permit (IFTP) for swordfish, tuna and toothfish regulated under the agency’s Antarctic Marine Living Resources, Highly Migratory Species International Trade Permit, and Tuna Tracking and Verification programs (see 1608020016). “All importers and exporters of fish products regulated by NMFS are encouraged to use ACE or AES, as applicable, for their electronic filings in advance” of Sept. 20, “when such filings will become mandatory,” NMFS said. The agency will hold two webinars, on Aug. 18 and Sept. 1, to discuss implementation of the consolidated IFTP (here).
Clarification: APHIS will on Aug. 15 end its “core” pilot. After that date, filers will be required to file "electronic entries in ACE with APHIS data and some or all APHIS forms using the method designated on the CBP Web site for the submission of the APHIS data and forms" (see 1607150020).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP on Aug. 13 will begin enforcing National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tariff schedule flags on weekly type 06 foreign trade zone entry summaries, it said in a CSMS message (here). “On that date, additional system validations will be in place to reject any ACE weekly Type 06 entry summary filings that do NOT include the NHTSA PGA Message Set data," CBP said.
The addition of reconciliation to ACE on Oct. 1 will allow filers to submit line-by-line changes to CBP electronically, rather than a hard copy spreadsheet, Lena Torrence of CBP’s Commercial Operations, Revenue and Entry division said during a recent webinar. The legacy Automated Commercial System currently only allows filers to submit the reconciliation header and association file, but as of Oct. 1 filers will also submit electronically all line-item changes to classification, special classification under tariff heading 9802, value and free-trade agreement eligibility, she said.