U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Ahern has named Assistant Commissioner, Office of International Trade, Daniel Baldwin as the executive business owner of the Automated Commercial Environment.
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.
On June 12, 2009, the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal year 2010 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Transportation Security Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.) After being reported, the FY 2010 DHS appropriations bill was introduced in the House (H.R. 2892).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted four draft antidumping and countervailing duty ACE ABI CATAIR1 chapters, in advance of the deployment of AD/CVD entry summary type 03 and related processing in ACE.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE Workplan Schedule," which lists the changes and/or fixes to the Automated Commercial Environment (and other systems it interfaces with) scheduled for deployment from April 25 - June 27, 2009.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that it has posted new and updated documents to assist with the processing of Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) entry summaries.
The land and sea portion of the 2008 Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative final rule issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department is effective June 1, 2009.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that effective May 22, 2009 the Revenue Division will no longer post information about continuous bonds scheduled for insufficiency in the Automated Commercial Environment.
The Department of Homeland Security has recently released its fiscal year 2010 budget request for salaries and expenses, which contains specific requests for U.S. Customs and Border Protection initiatives such as international cargo screening, Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, and other international programs.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message regarding the computer changes necessary for the implementation of the Food and Drug Administration's May 6, 2009 final rule on prior notice (PN) of food (including animal feed), which is imported or offered for import into the U.S.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that on April 25, 2009, the Automated Commercial Environment was modified to accept all Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative compliant travel document types.