U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an updated version of its instructions for carriers who elect to use Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) e-Manifest to transmit in-bond movements to CBP.
CBP has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that recent changes to the 2007 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) records, Harmonized System (HS) Update (No. 0704) include the following:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site 16 presentations that will be presented during the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Exchange III conference that is to be held on February 26-28, 2007 in Dearborn, Michigan.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice announcing that the third group of land border ports to become mandatory for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) electronic manifest: Truck (e-Manifest: Truck1) for advance cargo information purposes will be those in Michigan and New York effective May 24, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a notice which announces the phased enforcement of mandatory Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) electronic manifest: Truck (e-Manifest: Truck) for advance cargo information purposes at all land border ports in California, New Mexico, and Texas beginning April 19, 2007.
CBP has posted to its Web site the following:
The Journal of Commerce reports that at the recent Customs and Border Protection's 7th Annual Trade Symposium, Brad Shorser, Director of Trade Compliance at Sears and a member of COAC, stated that trade security aside, the Secure Freight Initiative (SF), ACE ,and C-TPAT are in essence, representative of a new age in Customs and trade facilitation. (JoC, 01/22/07, www.joc.com )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) posted an administrative message on February 13, 2007 stating that the port of St. Louis was closed due to limited broker activity and inclement weather. However, CBP stated that it would continue clearance of international flights. (Adm: 07-0051, dated 02/13/07, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2007/2007-0051.ADM )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice announcing that the next group, or cluster, of ports to be deployed for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)/National Customs Automation Program (NCAP) test concerning the transmission of automated truck manifest data for truck carrier accounts1 will be in the ports of Eastport and Porthill, Idaho and the following ports in Montana: Roosville, Whitlash, Del Bonita, Wildhorse, Sweetgrass, Piegan, Willow Creek, Turner, Morgan, Scobey, Opheim, Raymond, and Whitetail.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted the February/March 2007 issue of its Modernization Monitor newsletter to its Web site. Articles in this issue include (partial list):