U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message which provides an update on the new Automated Commercial Environment reporting tool Account Revenue (AR) reports. CBP states that it is aware that there is some confusion in running the new reporting tool and it is making every effort possible to simplify the process. CBP states that it hopes that the next time a user runs its preliminary Periodic Monthly Statements (PMS), the data will display better than in the old reporting tool.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice to its Web site announcing that it will be holding the Automated Commercial Environment Exchange VIII conference in San Francisco, CA on November 27-29, 2007, the last ACE Exchange conference for 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message stating that it has posted a revised ACE application, which includes the expanded account types that were delivered with the deployment of Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a list of upcoming "Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) on the Road" events, as follows:
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.