U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a PowerPoint presentation providing an overview of the Automated Commercial Environment delivery entitled Cargo Control and Release (CCR).
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 has posted to its Web site separate Automated Commercial Environment Portal Reports Dictionaries for importers, brokers, carriers, and participating government agencies.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice announcing that it has designated import safety as a Priority Trade Issue (PTI). According to CBP sources, thisis the first time that import safety has been designated as a PTI.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a Truck Manifest and Automated Broker Interface CSMS message stating that the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Certification Environment will be available for trade testing on April 15, 2008 and cancelling its previous message which stated that it would not be available for trade testing on April 15, 2008 from 7:00 a.m. EDT until 11:00 p.m. EDT. (See ITT's Online Archives or 03/31/08 news, 08033145 1, for BP summary of CBP's previous CSMS message.) (CSMS 08-000047, dated 04/07/08, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17054&page=&srch_argv=08-000047&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby.)
In December 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a notice announcing the phased enforcement of mandatory Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes at all land border ports in Alaska beginning February 11, 2008.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ACE Reports CSMS message announcing that the Authorized Data Extract (ADE), is now available to all Importer and Broker Automated Commercial Environment Portal Accounts.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the March 2008 Automated Commercial Environment Trade Account Owner (TAO) monthly update as an attachment to an ACE Portal Accounts CSMS message.
In early March 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a Truck Manifest CSMS message on the Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest update that is currently scheduled to be implemented on April 5, 2008.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted three additional chapters to its "ACE ABI CATAIR" document that it is building to replace the current Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a Truck Manifest CSMS message stating that the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Certification Environment will be unavailable for trade testing on April 15, 2008 from 7:00 a.m. EDT until 11:00 p.m. EDT. (CSMS 08-000044, dated 03/28/08, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17050&page=&srch_argv=&srchtype=&btype=&sortby=&sby)