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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 issued a notice designating the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Truck Manifest System (e-Manifest: Truck1) as the approved Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for the transmission of the data required by the Trade Act of 2002.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a press release announcing that the agency is beginning to implement ACE e-Manifest: Truck for Trade Act of 2002 (advance electronic cargo manifest) purposes, as follows:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a fact sheet on Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) features that will be coming over the next few years.
On October 13, 2006, President Bush signed into law the conference version of H.R. 4954, entitled the "Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006" (SAFE Port Act), a measure intended to improve maritime and cargo security through enhanced layered defenses, and for other purposes.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a press release announcing, among other things, that it will begin implementation of a mandatory Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) electronic manifest (e-Manifest) policy on a port-by-port basis beginning in 2007 for advance cargo information purposes.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a press release announcing that it has completed installations of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) electronic manifest (e-Manifest) in all land border ports in New York. With New York implemented, ACE e-Manifest filing is now available at 49 of the 99 U.S. land border ports. (CBP press release, dated 10/10/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/10102006.xml)
CBP has posted to its Web site a notice announcing that the global tariff rate quota (TRQ) on refined sugar (including specialty sugar) that opened on October 2, 2006 oversubscribed at opening moment. The pro rata percentage is 50.47% or .5047.
On September 30, 2006, the House and Senate passed (agreed to) the conference version of H.R. 4954, entitled the "Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006" (SAFE Port Act), which is a measure intended to improve maritime and cargo security through enhanced layered defenses, and for other purposes.
The following are documents which U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.). Updates are listed under "What's New" on its Web site: