According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources, Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1 for Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) accounts is now expected to be deployed in mid-September 2007.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued a final rule, effective August 24, 2007, which adds a new Subpart B to 49 CFR Part 367 to establish initial annual fees for 2007 and a fee bracket structure for the Unified Carrier Registration (UCR) Agreement as required under the 2005 Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU).
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 VII conference in Atlanta, GA on October 15 - 17, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has previously announced that the next customs broker license examination will be held on Monday, October 1, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message indicating that the implementation of Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1 for Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) accounts is delayed to September 2007 (from August 25/26, 2007).
The International Trade Administration frequently issues notices on antidumping and countervailing duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
The Los Angeles Times reports that counterfeit imports are flooding the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex, the busiest in the U.S. and a focal point of enforcement efforts by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which states that counterfeiting and piracy in the Los Angeles area cost businesses $5.2 billion and is responsible for the loss of 106,000 jobs. (LATimes, dated 08/22/07, available at http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ports22aug22,1,2616784.story?ctrack=1&cset=true)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site its June 2007 Report to the Trade on the Automated Commercial Environment/International Trade Data System Standard Data Set (SDS). CBP has also posted the ITDS Megamatrix.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a general notice announcing that effective September 20, 2007, its Post-Entry Amendment (PEA) Processing test will be modified, and CBP will discontinue accepting Supplementary Information Letters (SILs).
According to Trade Support Network (TSN) sources,1,2 Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A23 will be phased-in for ACE accounts on a filer-by-filer basis instead of deploying overnight, or phasing the system in on a port-by-port basis.