U.S. Customs and Border Protection has recently posted Automated Commercial Environment "Topic" documents providing information on various ACE Secure Data Portal issues, etc.
On December 26, 2007, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2008 was signed into law.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that the New Orleans client representative branch office will be closed on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 due to the observance of the local Mardi Gras holiday. CBP states that the office will reopen on Wednesday, February 6, 2008.
The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.):
U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently issued several documents announcing that it is scheduled to launch a new means of delivering information on its Automated Commercial Trade Interface Systems, called the Cargo Systems Messaging Service (CSMS), on February 11, 2008.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the following Automated Commercial Environment fact sheets:
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources, two truck Automated Commercial Environment updates that were scheduled to be implemented on Saturday, January 26, 2008 are now rescheduled for Saturday, February 2, 2008.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE Workplan Schedule," which provides a list of the changes and/or fixes to the Automated Commercial Environment and other systems it interfaces with that were scheduled for deployment on December 15, 2007 and January 26, 2008. CBP has previously stated that this list contains only those changes and/or fixes that impact the trade community.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site its report to Congress on the Automated Commercial Environment for the third quarter (April 1, 2007 - June 30, 2007) and fourth quarter (July 1, 2007 - September 30, 2007) of fiscal year 2007.
On January 26, 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection was scheduled to implement an Automated Commercial Environment update to enable electronic in-bond requests filed via the Automated Broker Interface message QP1 to update a shipment that is reported in a truck ACE e-manifest with a shipment release type of Pre-Arrival Processing System (PAPS2).