U.S. Customs and Border Protection has stated that with the September 9, 2007 deployment of Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1, previously-available Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) account types would be enhanced and additional ACE account types would be created.
According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection general notice, the final group, or cluster, of ports to be deployed for the Automated Commercial Environment/National Customs Automation Program test of the transmission of automated truck manifest data for truck carrier accounts1 will be the land border ports of Alcan, Dalton Cache, and Skagway in the state of Alaska.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued two ABI administrative messages regarding problems with ABI application identifiers KI (bond query) and TI (CBP Form 5106 add/update) transactions since the deployment of Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a question and answer document on outstanding questions from the importer/broker session and a supplemental breakout session for importers, brokers, and ABI software developers held during the Buffalo, NY ACE Exchange V conference that CBP hosted on June 4-6, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources have indicated that CBP has made progress on fixing the problem with ACE Reports which developed after CBP deployed Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1 on September 9, 2007. CBP sources now state that the reports are working, with the exception of two revenue reports. The fix for the two revenue reports is being worked on.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message regarding problems with ABI application identifiers KI (bond query) and TI (CBP Form 5106 add/update) transactions.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a notice reminding the trade that Phase 2 enforcement of mandatory e-Manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes at all land border ports in New Hampshire and Vermont as well as the remaining land border ports in North Dakota - St. John, Fortuna, Ambrose, Carbury, Noonan, Dunseith, Sherwood, Antler, Northgate, Westhope, and Portal, would begin on September 12, 2007.
On September 10, 2007, the Interagency Working Group on Import Safety submitted its initial report to the President entitled "Protecting American Consumers Every Step of the Way: A strategic framework for continual improvement in import safety."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message about driver/crew changes in Automated Commercial Environment that came with the September 9, 2007 deployment of Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1.
In July 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued an ABI administrative message reminding Automated Commercial Environment portal users about changes that they must make to their Internet Explorer web browser settings by September 14, 2007 in order to continue to access the ACE portal.