U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that the deployment of ACE (Automated Commercial Environment) release M1 (e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail for advance cargo information purposes) capabilities is no longer targeted for fall 2008, but a date that is approximately six to eight months later, due to problems discovered during the testing of the new software.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message providing updated information regarding the Food and Drug Administration's OASIS scheduled downtime for maintenance on Saturday, July 26, 2008, between 03:00 am (0300) and 06:00 am (0600) EST.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message stating that on Saturday night, July 26, 2008, the Automated Commercial Environment would be deploying into production new fixes to resolve the following problem tracking reports (PTRs):
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE on the Road" event schedule, which includes the following event:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican Customs are jointly evaluating trade requests to expand the hours of service for commercial entries or transactions at the Bridge of the Americas crossing in the Port of El Paso/Juarez. Currently open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., 24-hour operations are being considered.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the June 2008 Automated Commercial Environment Trade Account Owner (TAO) monthly update as an attachment to an ACE Portal Accounts CSMS message.
The International Trade Data System has posted its ITDS e-newsletter for the second quarter of 2008. Highlights of the topics discussed in the newsletter include:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memo entitled, "Amendment to Certificate of Eligibility Requirements for North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Tariff Preference Level (TPL) Claims," which provides updates to the 2003 CBP directive on NAFTA claims (No. 3550-085).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has temporarily removed the Entry Summary Query chapter of the ACE ABI CATAIR1 from its Web site.
The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.):