CBP has posted a document providing an April 2011 update on the status of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) program, including updates on the deployment of Rail and Sea Manifest (M1), post-summary corrections (PSCs), and Cargo Release. See future issue of ITT for details on the status of ACE.
As reported earlier, the February 2011 TSN Monthly Committee Report includes information from those who attended an ACE Cargo Release validation session held on February 2-3, 20111. Members were focused on determining which of their trade requests (GIFs, Great Idea Forms) were “in scope” for the Cargo Release segment of ACE, and could be developed for it.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
At a March 2011 roundtable discussion with the private sector, CBP Commissioner Alan Bersin characterized the agency’s overarching trade challenge as transforming “systems geared to a world that no longer exists,” and asked the trade representatives in attendance to help identify the changes that CBP needs to make to become more relevant.
On March 15, 2011, U.S. Council for International Business members and staff met with U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin and his senior staff as part of Bersin's Trade Day Agenda, to share USCIB's priority recommendations, including a list of 18 potential C-TPAT benefits.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the March 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update, which provides information on Post Summary Corrections (PSCs), including CBP’s timeframe for deploying PSC functionality.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the March 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update, which provides information on the ACE deployment of Importer Security Filing reports for C-TPAT members, ISF status queries for Portal accounts, etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the March 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update, which provides information on ACE Cargo Release, including CBP’s timeframe for awarding the contract for its development.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the March 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update, which includes information on the deployment of the ACE Document Image System (DIS), including its timeframe for moving from testing to deployment.