U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a final rule to permit licensed customs brokers to store records relating to their customs transactions at any location within the U.S. under certain conditions, and to remove the requirement that certain brokers retain entry records in their original format for the 120-day period after release of imported merchandise. The rule ran in the Federal Register June 8.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection official Daniel Baldwin sought to allay persistent concerns from the trade community on the coming transition to eManifest: Rail and Sea (M1), saying the immediate CBP focus will be implementation rather enforcement. Baldwin, CBP's Executive Director of Cargo and Conveyance Security, spoke at the American Association for Exporters and Importers convention June 5. Several industry executives voiced concerns, especially about the treatment of residue within M1.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection's establishment of Centers for Excellence and Expertise will be beneficial beyond a single agency, industry or company, said CBP Acting Commissioner David Aguilar, speaking at the American Association of Exporters and Importers conference June 4. Such efforts mark the institutionalizing of a "new culture," he said. "We're building the future," he said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the simplified entry (SE) pilot, begun on May 29, was successful. The successful pilot marks the delivery of the first phase of Cargo Release, known as Simplified Entry, in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), said CBP.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a record of changes since May 7 to the ACE ABI CATAIR (Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements). The change log is (here). The full CATAIR is (here).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reminded ACE users of a coming outage in a CSMS message. CBP said due to a major hardware upgrade, the ACE certification environment will be unavailable beginning June 1, 2012 at 15:00 EDT through June 3, 2012 at 23:59 EDT. This upgrade won't impact ACE Production, said CBP.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released its ACE Trade Account Owner (TAO) Update. The TAO provides an update on participation in CBP's e-Manifest: Rail and Sea, ISF Reports, and tips for obtaining a list of truck conveyances. The CSMS message is (here).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a clarification for M1 carriers using the in-bond authorization functionality in ACE. T
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will be working on important fixes to deployed ACE functionality this summer, CBP said in an update on planned ACE capabilities for the year. The major categories of fixes for trade capabilities include Reports, Forms and other Entry Summary-related issues, as well as Truck Manifest, said CBP.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection released a spreadsheet showing active AD/CVD cases and the associated case numbers, ISO country codes, tariff numbers, and short descriptions of each case as of May 15, 2012 . This information alone should not be relied upon in determining whether an AD/CVD case is currently active, or whether merchandise falls under the scope of AD/CVD order, said CBP. For current AD/CVD information, consult ACE, Department of Commerce Federal Register Notices, and ADDCVD Search on CBP.gov, said CBP.