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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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APHIS Will Roll Out a Core Message Set on May 20
May 6, 2024 by Noah Garfinkel|USDA

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will on May 20 "roll out" use of its APHIS Core Message Set for Certificates of Foreign Inspection and/or Treatment, or PPQ Form 203, for air shipments of precleared commodities from Chile, air shipments of precleared commodities from Thailand, and both air and maritime shipments of precleared commodities from Argentina, the agency said in a bulletin on May 6. This will create an electronic database -- for Certificates of Foreign Inspection and/or Treatment -- that can be "invoked" by filers and accessed by CBP agriculture inspectors through the Automated Commercial Environment Document Image System. "The process will function like current permitting and ePhyto capabilities in ACE," APHIS said.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
CBP Will Require New Mandatory Prompt for Company ID in ACE
May 6, 2024 by Noah Garfinkel|Customs

CBP will begin requiring trade community users to identify the "subject company" whenever a report is run or scheduled in ACE Reports starting on May 16, the agency said in a CSMS message May 6. There will be a phased roll-out through August. The first universe affected is the Importer Security Filing (ISF). All existing scheduled reports will need to be updated after this change has taken effect or the scheduled reports will fail, CBP said. CBP will have a pre-deployment call on May 10 at 1 p.m. EDT.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
Corporate Surety Powers of Attorney Feature Will Retire in Legacy ACE Portal on May 11
May 2, 2024 by Noah Garfinkel|Customs

CBP will retire the tool that creates and maintains a list of corporate surety powers of attorney in the legacy ACE Portal on May 11, the agency said. CBP, in a CSMS message on May 2, said that after May 11 surety users will only be able to maintain corporate surety powers of attorney in the modernized ACE portal. No action is needed to transfer the existing information, CBP said.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
NCBFAA Argues That Capacity Constraints Are Biggest Hurdle to Resiliency
April 29, 2024 by Mara Lee|USTR

The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America's president told the U.S. trade representative that customs brokers and others in the trade community aren't "pro forced-labor, pro-pollution, pro-unsustainable environmental practices," but that too often, "‘race to the top’ objectives do not take into consideration the ability to actually implement the policies, and the costs associated with the goals."

Topics:321 de minimis, Customs Broker, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Customs duty, Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), Detention and demurrage, Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), Forced Labor