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The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) is the CBP's electronic system through which the international trade community reports imports and exports and the government determines admissibility.

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Former CBP Officials Skeptical of Project 2025 Goal to Move Trade Office Under Field Operations
March 21, 2025 by Joanna Marsh|Top News

Project 2025 recommends combining CBP's Office of Trade and Office of Trade Relations with the Office of Field Operations in order to “achieve streamlined operations and increase OT’s capacity and capability by leveraging OFO’s expansive resources,” according to the Project 2025 chapter on its recommendations for DHS.

Topics:Customs duty, CBP CROSS Rulings, Forced Labor
CBP Updates List of COAC Recommendations
March 20, 2025 |Customs

CBP has updated a list that provides all the recommendations passed by the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC). The list includes recommendations offered since the 14th term meeting in April 2016.

Topics:321 de minimis, Section 301 tariff exclusions, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Entry Type 86 , Customs duty, Court of International Trade, 21st Century Customs Framework, Antidumping and Countervailing Duties (AD/CVD), Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), Drawback, Section 232 Tariffs, Blockchain, CBP CROSS Rulings, World Trade Organization (WTO), Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), USMCA, Forced Labor , Section 201 Safeguards
Comments on Rule to Improve Type 86 Clearances Reveal Deep Disagreements in Trade
March 19, 2025 by Mara Lee|Top News

Associations' views diverged widely on the wisdom of codifying a modified Type 86 process and tweaking the clear-from-the-manifest process for de minimis entries. Groups also disagreed on CBP's proposals for what new data should be submitted. The agency received 95 comments on its proposal, though dozens were from individuals and didn't make substantive suggestions. Some associations and companies addressed both this proposed rule and the one that would carve out sections 301 and 232 goods from de minimis. The comment period for that rule closes March 24.

Topics:321 de minimis, Entry Type 86 , Customs duty, Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), Trump tariffs, Reciprocal tariffs