U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site an updated version of its lengthy document on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) entitled "ACE Frequently Asked Questions."
Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) is the CBP's electronic system through which the international trade community reports imports and exports to and from the U.S. and the government determines admissibility.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted "fact sheets" to its Web site containing information about the following new or enhanced Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) account types that will be available under Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted its Instructions for the Customs Broker License Examination, which provides information for the October 2007 exam. It covers much of the same information as CBP's previously released Notice of Examination, but has some additional details (e.g., silent calculators are allowed, examinees may keep the exam booklet, etc.). (See ITT's Online Archives or 08/01/07 news, 07080110, for BP summary of CBP's Notice of Examination: October 2007 Customs Broker Examination, which announced that applications for the October exam are due August 31, 2007.) (CBP exam instructions, posted 08/08/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/broker_management/broker_exam/exam_instructions.ctt/exam_instructions.doc)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of August 6, 2007. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haiti HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 08/06/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
At the Automated Commercial Environment Exchange VI conference held July 30-August 1, 2007 in Brooklyn, NY, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials discussed the deployment of ACE Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1, which is currently scheduled to be deployed on August 25, 20071.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has updated its Web-based training (WBT) for the Automated Commercial Environment to include a course, entitled "Enhanced ACE Accounts and Master Data (A1)," on the new functionality that will be provided in the ACE Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1 release.
In May 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted to its Web site a notice announcing the phased enforcement of mandatory Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes at all land border ports in Idaho and Michigan beginning August 6, 2007.
The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.):
In March 2007, CBP issued an ABI administrative message on the future expansion of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) in-bond capabilities for e-Manifest: Truck participants that use the Electronic Data Interchange option so that they can (1) arrive in bonds at destination by container/equipment, (2) export in-bonds that have previously arrived by in-bond bills of lading and container/equipment, and (3) cancel in-bond arrivals and exports. (See ITT's Online Archives or 05/10/07 news, 07051005, for BP summary.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message reminding Automated Commercial Environment portal users about changes that they must make to their Internet Explorer web browser settings by September 14, 2007 in order to continue to access the ACE portal.