U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted the following to its Web site:
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 posted to its Web site a notice announcing that it will be holding its Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Enrollment Seminar in El Paso, Texas on August 29-31, 2006.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an updated list of 45 administrative messages, from July 2006 back to 1993, detailing procedures for Remote Location Filing (RLF), Electronic Invoice Processing (EIP), and the use of Invoice by Request (INVREQ) in both RLF and EIP. This updated list reflects the addition of Adm: 06-0871, which states that filers may not use EIP or RFL for EU pasta agreement entries. (See ITT's Online Archives or 07/31/06 news, 06073110 for BP summary of Adm: 06-0871.)(List of RLF and EIP Messages, dated 07/25/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/cargo_summary/remote_location_filing/operational_notes/message_list.xml.)
On July 13, 2006, the Senate passed its own version of H.R. 5441, the fiscal year (FY) 2007 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted updated information to its Web site regarding its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Exchange Conference for importers and brokers on August 15-16, 2006 and for truck carriers on August 16-17, 2006, in Chicago, IL.
On July 25, 2006, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner W. Ralph Basham testified at the House Ways and Means Committee Trade Subcommittee's hearing on Customs budget authorizations and other Customs issues. Also testifying at the hearing were representatives from the following organizations:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice announcing that the next groups, or clusters, 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 accounts will be in the state of New York.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted to its Web site reports on five Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Release 5 workshops (or meetings) that were held in late 2005 or early 2006.
The House Ways and Means Committee's Trade Subcommittee has issued an advisory announcing that it will be holding a hearing on July 25, 2006 on budget authorizations for fiscal year (FY) 2007 and 2008 for the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS') U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and on other Customs issues.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted the following new modified ACE EDI messages for Release 4 Truck Manifest: