Commerce Secretary Locke issued a statement on the release of the September 2009 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Report, which indicated U.S. exports increased by 2.9 percent since August 2009, while imports increased 5.8 percent. Exports rose for the fifth consecutive month. (Press release, dated 11/13/09, available at http://www.commerce.gov/NewsRoom/PressReleases_FactSheets/PROD01_008612)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted its report to Congress on the Automated Commercial Environment for the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 (April 1 through June 30, 2009).
CBP has issued a CSMS message advising the trade that testing for ACE Entry Summaries is now available in the ACE Certification environment. Testing in ACE Certification requires that the test summary data conform to the specifications for ACE release A2.3.1a (AD/CVD entry summary and related processing). Filers whose software conforms to the new requirements may start or resume testing of ACE Entry Summaries, effective immediately. (See ITT's Online Archives or 11/04/09 news, 09110405, for BP summary announcing that CBP would be deploying ACE AD/CVD testing to the Certification environment on November 9th.) (CSMS 09-000346, dated 11/09/09, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17741&page=&srch_argv=09-000346&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that registration is now open for live webcast viewing of the 10th annual Trade Symposium, which will be held on December 8 - 10, 2009 in Washington, DC.
The ITDS Board has submitted its annual report on the International Trade Data System to Congress, as required by the 2006 SAFE Port Act.1 The report includes updates on the status of ITDS implementation and the status of the Automated Commercial Environment within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, among other issues.
CBP has posted its report to Congress on the Automated Commercial Environment for the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 (April 1 through June 30, 2009). (Report, posted 11/05/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/automated/modernization/ace/quarterly_reports/ace_rpt_09_3qtr.ctt/ace_rpt_09_3qtr.pdf)
The ITDS Board has submitted its annual report on the International Trade Data System to Congress, as required by the 2006 SAFE Port Act.1 The report includes updates on the status of ITDS implementation and the status of the Automated Commercial Environment within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, among other issues.
The ITDS Board has submitted its annual report on the International Trade Data System to Congress, as required by the 2006 SAFE Port Act.1 The report includes updates on the status of ITDS implementation and the status of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, among other issues.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message stating that the ACE contact list has been edited to reflect the new email address for the CBP Technology Service Desk. The new email address is CBP.TECHNOLOGY.SERVICE.DESK@CBP.DHS.GOV.(CSMS 09-000345, dated 11/05/09, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17738&page=&srch_argv=09-000345&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby)
At the November 4, 2009 COAC meeting, a Treasury official announced that the International Trade Data System annual report to Congress has been issued. According to Treasury, the report contains recommendations that could help mitigate the effect of ACE delays on ITDS program. For example, the report recommends that CBP could begin to collect ITDS information for other agencies through the Automated Broker Interface, and then make the data available through the ACE data warehouse. See future issues of ITT for additional details of COAC meeting and ITDS report. (Report, dated September 2009, available at http://www.itds.gov/xp/itds/whats_new/)