Communications Daily is a service of Warren Communications News.
Subscriber Login

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 and the government determines admissibility.

to
articlessource documents
Refine Topic Search
Clear Terms

Search Primer

Term list: Separate terms with spaces, not commas or semicolons.

Multi-word term: Place inside quotes to ensure an exact match (e.g. "universal service fund").

Acronyms: Use all capital letters to ensure the search is not looking for that letter sequence instead.(e.g. NTIA).

Required term: If a term must be included in any resulting articles, prefix it with a plus sign (e.g., "FCC chairman" +Pai).

Excluded term: If a term should be excluded from any articles being found, prefix it with a minus sign (e.g., FCC -Carr).

Simplest form: Use the simplest form of a term (e.g. "satellite" instead of "satellites" or "impose" instead of "imposed").

EPA Lists Subheadings That May Need TSCA Wood Formaldehyde Import Certifications
March 27, 2019 |EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency recently posted a list of tariff schedule subheadings that may require import certification under Toxic Substances Control Act regulations on formaldehyde in composite wood products. The list is intended to “assist importers in identifying regulated composite wood products, component parts fabricated with composite wood products, and finished goods fabricated with composite wood products which may require TSCA Section 13 Import Certification” in ACE, EPA said on its website. “Although EPA has attempted to identify a large universe of HTS codes that would be associated with articles regulated by the rule, this list is not exhaustive, and in some cases may be over-inclusive. Thus, this list should not be considered conclusive of articles that do or do not require TSCA Section 13 import certification,” EPA said. Import certification for composite wood products has been required since March 22.

Topics:Harmonized Tariff Schedule
CBP Announces Filing Procedures for Second Group of Products Granted Section 301 Exclusions
March 25, 2019 |Top News

CBP on March 22 added the ability in ACE for importers to file entries with the second group of exclusions from Section 301 duties, it said in a CSMS message issued on the same day. Filers of imported products that were granted an exclusion should report the regular chapter 84, 85 or 90 Harmonized Tariff Schedule number, as well as subheading 9903.88.06 for products subject to Section 301 duties on products from China but that have been granted an exemption by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. “Do not submit the corresponding Chapter 99 HTS number for the Section 301 duties when HTS 9903.88.06 is submitted,” CBP said.

Topics:Section 301 tariff exclusions, Harmonized Tariff Schedule, Customs duty
Mandatory APHIS Core PGA Message Set Filing Expected to Be Announced Soon
March 22, 2019 |Customs

Filing in ACE of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service “core” partner government agency (PGA) message set data is about to be announced in a Federal Register notice coming in “March or April,” beginning a six- to nine-month informed compliance period before the new data becomes mandatory, Livingston International said in a client alert. The new electronic filing requirements will cover APHIS-regulated commodities, besides Lacey Act data, which is already mandatory in ACE, and will include PGA message set data from 18 paper licenses, permits, certificates and other documents, including health certificates, phytosanitary certificates and import permits. An update to the CBP and trade advanced interface requirements (CATAIR) for APHIS Core, issued in October 2016, “will be required and is expected that it will be reissued upon the announcement,” Livingston said.

Topics:Lacey Act, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)