The National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America has presented U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Ahern with a white paper outlining its ACE priorities for customs brokers.
CBP has posted COAC's Importer Security Filing Subcommittee statement of work and directory. The ISF subcommittee was established at the May 6, 2009 COAC meeting and is to advise COAC of any advice or recommendations related to ISF. Specifically, the subcommittee is expected to generate advice and recommendations pertaining to the implementation of the ISF requirements. (Documents were posted on 07/28/09)
CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that on July 17, 2009, CBP published CBP Dec. 09&8722;26 titled "Guidelines for the Assessment and Cancellation of Claims for Liquidated Damages for Failure to Comply with the Vessel Stow Plan, Container Status Message, and Importer Security Filing Requirements." (See ITT's Online Archives or 07/17/09 and 07/20/09 news, 09071705 and 09072010, for BP summaries of the 10+2 penalty and mitigation guidelines.) (CSMS 09-000275, dated 07/27/09, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17665&page=&srch_argv=09-000275&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby)
CBP has posted a slide presentation providing an ACE overview and status update. This presentation covers ACE program successes, current capabilities, future capabilities, the International Trade Data System (ITDS), etc. (Presentation, posted 07/22/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/automated/modernization/ace/toolkit/ace_ovrview_status.ctt/ace_ovrview_status.ppt)
CBP has issued a memo on the decrease of the 2009 DR-CAFTA tariff preference level for certain non-originating Nicaragua apparel. (See ITT's Online Archives or 06/26/09 news, 09062620, for previous BP summary of the decrease.) (QBT-09-532, dated 07/02/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2009/qbt_09_532.ctt/qbt_09_532.pdf)
CBP has posted the following ACE documents:
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) and tariff preference level (TPL) commodity report as of July 13, 2009. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, OFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, OFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (Weekly commodity report available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/cr07132009.ctt/cr07132009.pdf)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ESAR A2.2 (ACE Initial Entry Types) Frequently Asked Questions document which covers ACE portal topics.
On July 9, 2009, the Senate passed its own version of H.R. 2892, the fiscal year (FY) 2010 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that ABI air in-bond functionality (application identifier QX/WX) will be available for testing in the Automated Commercial System on July 13, 2009. Another CSMS message will be issued when the functionality is available in ACS Production.