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The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) is the CBP's electronic system through which the international trade community reports imports and exports and the government determines admissibility.

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CBP Announces Filing Procedures for Recently Granted 3rd Tranche Section 301 Exclusions
June 15, 2020 by Tim Warren|Customs

CBP added on June 4 the ability in ACE for importers to file entries with recently excluded goods in the third tranche of Section 301 tariffs, it said in a CSMS message. The official Office of the U.S. Trade Representative notice for the exclusions was published May 28 (see 2005220020). The exclusions are in subheading 9903.88.48. The exclusions are available for any product that meets the description in the Annex to USTR’s notice, regardless of whether the importer filed an exclusion request. The product exclusions apply retroactively to Sept. 24, 2018, the date the tariffs on the third list took effect, and remain in effect until Aug. 7, 2020. The CSMS message also includes a summary of Section 301 duties that shows information on each tranche of tariffs and granted product exclusions.

Topics:Customs duty
AMS Ends ACE Pilot on Marketing Order Data for Fruits, Vegetables, Specialty Crops
June 10, 2020 |USDA

The Agricultural Marketing Service is ending its ACE pilot test of electronic filing for Section 8e notifications of arrival of fruits, vegetables and specialty crops subject to marketing orders. “CBP and AMS have evaluated the transmission and analysis of the trade data related to AMS responsibilities and have found the pilot successful. As such, the ACE [Partner Government Agency (PGA)] Message Set is deemed to have the operational capabilities necessary to electronically collect the section 8e data required by AMS, and AMS’s [Compliance Enforcement Management System (CEMS)] is deemed to have the operational capabilities necessary to analyze that data,” the notice said. The pilot had been running since 2015 (see 1508050019).

Commerce Finds Solar Mounts Subject to Aluminum Extrusions Duties, Applying New 'Subassembly' Test
June 8, 2020 by Brian Feito|Top News

Solar roof mountings made from extruded aluminum parts and steel fasteners do not qualify for the “finished merchandise” exemption from antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum extrusions from China (A-570-967/C-570-968), the Commerce Department said in a recent scope ruling that marks the agency’s first application of a new definition for the exemption born from years of litigation on the subject.

Topics:Court of International Trade
CBP Says Bonded Carrier Must Take Physical Delivery to Obligate Bond for Non-Bonded Carrier
June 5, 2020 by Tim Warren|Top News

Bonded merchandise can only be carried by non-bonded parties if the bonded carrier first takes physical delivery of the merchandise and obligates its bond to a non-bonded carrier, CBP said in a May 5 ruling. Barnes Richardson lawyer Larry Friedman requested the ruling on behalf of Ford Motor Company. Friedman asked CBP for input on a logistics company proposal for consolidating immediate transportation and immediate exportation processes, it said.

Topics:Customs duty, Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)