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 February 9, 2006 in Washington, DC. (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 issued a general notice announcing the two next 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 for truck carrier accounts will occur at certain ports in Texas.
CBP has posted the following to its Web site:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice announcing that it is modifying its National Customs Automation Program (NCAP) test concerning periodic monthly deposit of estimated duties and fees by eliminating the following sentence from its August 8, 2005 notice: "ACH credit participants must initiate payment no later than the 14th working day of the month."
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 September 30, 2005 and covers the July 1, 2005 - September 30, 2005 period.
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 September 30, 2005 and covers the July 1, 2005 - September 30, 2005 period.
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 September 30, 2005 and covers the July 1, 2005 - September 30, 2005 period.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site new instructions for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) application.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a press release announcing that its U.S.-VISIT program has completed installation of biometric entry capabilities at 104 land border ports, as mandated by Congress. DHS states that biometric entry capabilities are now deployed at all fixed ports of entry open to U.S.-VISIT travelers. (DHS press release, dated 12/30/05, available at http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=5314.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site its answers to questions submitted by the trade community at its November 2005 Trade Symposium.