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 port of Pittsburg in the state of New Hampshire and the following specified ports in the state of Maine: Ferry Point, Milltown, Eastport, Lubec, Vanceboro, Forest City, Orient, Houlton, Monticello, Van Buren, Hamlin, Madawaska, Fort Kent, Estcourt, Limestone, Jackman, Coburn Gore, St. Zacharie, St. Aurelie, St. Pamphile, St. Juste, Fort Fairfield, Easton, and Bridgewater.
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 (CBP) has recently posted to its Web site its quarterly reports on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) entitled Report to Congress on the Automated Commercial Environment. These reports cover the four quarters of calendar year 2006.
In January 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued an electronic notice which announced 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 Washington and Arizona as well as the ports of Pembina, Neche, Walhalla, Maida, Hannah, Sarles and Hansboro, North Dakota.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted to its Web site its quarterly reports on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) entitled Report to Congress on the Automated Commercial Environment. These reports cover the four quarters of calendar year 2006.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted to its Web site its quarterly reports on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) entitled Report to Congress on the Automated Commercial Environment. These reports cover the four quarters of calendar year 2006.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice announcing a change in the deployment date for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Entry Summary, Accounts, Revenue (ESAR) A1 release. This release, originally scheduled for May 2007, has been moved to August 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued instructions in English and Spanish for brokers, importers, and carriers with Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) portal accounts, that wish to act as third parties on behalf of truck carriers with ACE non-portal accounts, in order to submit their electronic manifest (e-manifest) information via the ACE Secure Data Portal.
On February 27, 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Ralph Basham testified before the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Homeland Security regarding CBP's fiscal year (FY) 2008 budget request.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is announcing that beginning March 15, 2007, truck carriers who participate in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)Truck Manifest Test1, that have ACE non-portal accounts, can submit their electronic manifest (e-Manifest) information via the ACE Secure Data Portal using third parties that have ACE portal accounts.
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ)/tariff preference level (TPL) commodity report as of March 12, 2007. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain BFTA, CAFTA-DR, JFTA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, CAFTA-DR, CBTPA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (Chile FTA) 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 03/12/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)