At the recent Homeland Security Cargo Summit, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) offered a draft national cargo security strategy paper as a starting point for a Summit discussion on the development of a strategic plan to support enhanced cargo security across DHS.
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 new or modified Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages for Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Release 4 - Truck Manifest.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that the tariff-rate quota (TRQ) for Canadian cheddar cheese as provided for in HTS Chapter 4, Additional U.S. Note (AUSN) 18, which opened on Monday, January 3, 2005, did not oversubscribe at the opening. Therefore, all entries presented at opening have been charged and may be released. (See ITT's Online Archives or 01/04/05 news, 05010445 6, for BP summary on CBP's notice announcing this 2005 TRQ.) (QBT-05-500, dated 01/05/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/qbts/qbt2005/05_500.ctt/05_500.doc)
The Wall Street Journal reports that the duties China will levy on certain categories of apparel exports (coats, skirts, knit shirts, nonknit shirts, pajamas and underwear) seem unlikely to satisfy the governments in the U.S. or Europe intent on protecting their industries from an expected flood of Chinese-made garments. The article states that almost all categories will have duties of just 20 fen per item, with several persons quoted as stating that the tax (which Chinese companies can absorb and/or pass on to customers) is just a political or token measure, and will do little to slow exports. (WJS, dated 12/28/04, www.wsj.com )
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site new or modified Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages for Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Release 4 - Truck Manifest.
On December 16-17, 2004, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) held a Cargo Security Summit at the Georgetown University Conference Center. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site CBP Commissioner Robert Bonner's remarks at the summit, highlights of which are provided below.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the port of Blaine, WA has issued a Port (Trade) Information Notice notifying the trade community of the shutdown of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Release 4 Truck Manifest pilot.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site the December 2004 issue of its U.S. Customs and Border Protection Modernization newsletter which focuses on the transition of the port of Blaine, WA to the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site new or modified Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) messages for Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Release 4 - Truck Manifest.
The Trade Support Network's (TSN's) Entry Process Committee has recently posted to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Web site three updated Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) user requirements recommendations (all three are dated November 1, 2004).