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Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)

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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Term list: Separate terms with spaces, not commas or semicolons to find either word (e.g. AD/CVD antidumping).

Acronyms: Use all capital letters (e.g., ACE).

Required term: If a term must be included in any resulting articles, prefix it with a plus sign (e.g., CBP +releases).

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CBO Says House de Minimis Bill Would Collect $23.5B in Tariffs, Cost CBP Little
August 19, 2024 by Mara Lee|Top News

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has projected that applying Section 301 tariffs to the contents of packages that previously benefited from de minimis, as proposed in the House (see 2407080049), would increase revenue from tariffs by about $23.5 billion in the 2024-2034 period, but would only require reprogramming of ACE and more money for data storage and ACE maintenance, not new CBP officers. The CBO estimated that improving ACE would cost $3 million, and that CBP would need $2 million annually to maintain the system.

Topics:321 de minimis, Section 301 tariffs, Customs duty, Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), Forced Labor , Trump tariffs
DDTC Excludes Temporary Imports from Rule Describing Activities That Don't Need Authorization
August 14, 2024 by Ian Cohen|Other U.S.

The State Department this week is publishing a final version of a rule to expand its regulatory definition of activities that don’t need a license because they don’t qualify as exports, reexports, retransfers or temporary imports. The rule, effective Sept. 16, is largely consistent with the proposed version, though the agency made changes to narrow its scope and make sure certain temporary imports will still require a license.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)