U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing that the seventh group of land border ports to become mandatory for the Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes will be those in Alaska (Alcan, Dalton Cache, and Skagway) effective February 11, 2008.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message stating that some preliminary periodic monthly statements were erroneously sent out of ACE on November 11, 2007 - these should be ignored. They should not have been sent until Friday, November 16, 2007. Some debit authorizations are now being rejected, and CBP is in the process of making ACS corrections to allow debit authorizations to process successfully. Rejected debit authorizations need to be retransmitted once the fix is completed in ACS, which was expected to occur no later that close of business on November 13, 2007. (Adm: 07-0253, dated 11/03/07, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2007/2007-0253.ADM.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message regarding problems with the processing of ABI application identifier TI/TR (CBP Form 5106 add/update) transactions since the deployment of Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing corrections to Amendment 17, dated June 2007, of the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document.
On November 6, 2007, the Interagency Working Group on Import Safety presented to President Bush its "Action Plan for Import Safety: A roadmap for continual improvement." The Action Plan includes short and long-term recommendations based on risk-based approaches across the entire import life cycle and a verification model that allocates resources based on risk.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice providing its "solution" to the problem regarding "gaps" in continuous bond coverage.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site the tentative agenda for the CBP Trade Symposium 2007 which will be held on November 14-15, 2007 in Washington, DC.
On November 6, 2007, the Interagency Working Group on Import Safety presented to President Bush its "Action Plan for Import Safety: A roadmap for continual improvement." The Action Plan includes short and long-term recommendations based on risk-based approaches across the entire import life cycle and a verification model that allocates resources based on risk.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that the new phone system has been installed and is operational at the Charleston, SC Customhouse. This message lists the new phone numbers for the specific departments. (See ITT's Online Archives or 10/31/07 news, 07103145 1, for BP summary of previous CBP administrative message informing the trade that CBP's phone system in Charleston, SC had been out since October 19, 2007.) (Adm: 07-0244, dated 11/01/07, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2007/2007-0244.ADM.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a notice providing details on the enhancements to the Automated Commercial Environment account type for importers that were implemented with the deployment Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1.