CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Several partner government agencies (PGAs) have now confirmed in writing that they will attach their message sets to e214 electronic Foreign-Trade Zone admissions filings once they are available in ACE, trade associations said in a Feb. 21 letter to CBP. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (for both its core and Lacey Act data sets), the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have all said they will switch from current PGA message set filing at the time of type 06 entry/entry summary filing to at time of admission to the zone once the e214 is deployed, the letter said.
CBP posted its cutover plans for the transition of reconciliation and drawback into ACE over the Feb. 24 weekend, it said in a CSMS message. The agency plans to turn off both in the legacy Automated Commercial System at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 23, and any submissions to ACS after that time will be rejected, it said. The Feb. 24 deployment also includes liquidation, as well as new e-bond and Cuba import filing capabilities (see 1802080023).
CBP plans to issue procedures for ACE outages before the end of the month, the agency said in an Outages Working Group report released ahead of the Feb. 28 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting in Miami. CBP will "publish the public downtime procedures document by the end of February," it said. Following some COAC recommendations in November, "CBP’s Office of Information and Technology (OIT) has assigned a development team to begin working on the recommended enhancements," it said. "Enhancements to the Dashboard will be implemented throughout calendar year 2018."
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America recently called on CBP to address several holes that still remain in ACE. “While CBP has made great strides over the last few years in development of ACE, we are still in need of additional critical development to make ACE functional,” the trade group said in a white paper. An attached “Priority List” lays out the specific needs of the trade community and where CBP is in addressing them. The group raised similar issues in a Feb. 9 letter to Brenda Smith, executive assistant commissioner in the CBP Office of Trade, obtained by International Trade Today
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP collected about $34.8 billion in customs duties during fiscal year 2017, the agency said in its trade and travel report for FY 2017. That's a decrease from the $35.2 billion the agency collected in duties during FY 2016. Still, CBP collections in total duties, taxes and other fees during the year were pretty much flat -- about $40.1 billion -- when compared with the previous year. The agency also saw about a five percent increase in cargo containers from FY16, it said. "CBP processed $2.39 trillion in imports in FY2017, equating to 33.2 million entries and more than 28.5 million imported cargo containers at U.S. ports of entry," the agency said.