On June 23, 2008, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported S. 3181, the fiscal year 2009 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, affecting U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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.
The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General has issued its report on U.S. Customs and Border Protection's security controls over the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that on July 1, 2008 the following 12 filer and importer compliance ACE reports had been restored to all trade users (fiscal and calendar are each separate reports):
In May 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials attending the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC) announced that CBP would carry over into the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) 24 edits which the Trade Support Network had asked CBP to keep.
In June 24, 2008 written testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, Treasury Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax, Trade, and Tariff Policy Skud discussed the International Trade Data System (ITDS), among other things.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the follow Automated Commercial Environment documents:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE Workplan Schedule," which provides a list of the changes and/or fixes to the Automated Commercial Environment and other systems it interfaces with that were scheduled for deployment on May 31, 2008 and June 21, 2008.
The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.):
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ACE Portal Accounts and ACE Reports CSMS message announcing that the following ACE (Automated Commercial Environment) Account Revenue report enhancements have been made to improve performance:
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, ACE (Automated Commercial Environment) Reports have been made easier with the release of its ACE Portal Reports Dictionaries.