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The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) is the CBP's electronic system through which the international trade community reports imports and exports and the government determines admissibility.

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CBP Announces Filing Procedures for Recently Granted Third Tranche Section 301 Exclusions
February 18, 2020 by Tim Warren|Customs

CBP added on Jan. 14 the ability in ACE for importers to file entries with recently excluded goods in the third tranche of Section 301 tariffs, it said in a CSMS message. Filers of imported products that were granted an exclusion (see 2001020035) should report the regular Chapters 4, 40, 42, 44, 54, 55, 56, 58, 73, 76, 79, 82, 84, 85, 87, 90 and 94 Harmonized Tariff Schedule number, as well as subheading 9903.88.37, CBP said in the message. “Importers shall not submit the corresponding Chapter 99 HTS number for the Section 301 duties when” subheading 9903.88.37 is submitted, CBP said.

Topics:Harmonized Tariff Schedule, Customs duty
CBP Updates ACE Deployment Schedule
February 12, 2020 |Customs

CBP updated its ACE deployment schedule on Feb. 11. Among the listed changes are removed items that have already been deployed and revised descriptions of the deployments. Also new to the schedule is the “Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Message Set Implementation,” which has an anticipated deployment date of September.

Executive Order on Counterfeits Called 'Ambiguous,' but Trade Community Concerned
February 10, 2020 by Mara Lee|Top News

The recent executive order to strengthen e-commerce enforcement is ambiguous, and how CBP plans to heed the order's call to restrict access to importer of record numbers based on customs and intellectual property rights violations is unclear, Sandler Travis lawyer Paula Connelly said. That's because, currently, domestic importers use their tax IDs to register with CBP, and only companies that have no offices in the U.S. file for an importer of record number.