CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that ACE e-Manifest:Truck has been experiencing issues with Shipment Control Numbers (SCN) being reused after 3 years. The reused SCNs are being incorrectly linked to the older SCN (shipment), which causes CBP to take additional time to examine the scenario and process the trip, and also delays the carrier at the border for an extended period of time while waiting for the trip to be released.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that the ACE ABI CATAIR chapters containing revisions to party definitions were deployed to ACE Production on August 28, 2010. These changes are scheduled for deployment to the ACE CERT environment on September 11, 2010.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that revised draft Implementation Guidelines (IGs) for the deployment of ACE M1 (e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail) have been posted.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted one new and several updated draft ACE ABI CATAIR documents to its website for the future release of ACE M1 (e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message stating that it has resolved the problem with certain forms created by CBP in ACE for ACS entry summaries not posting to the importer’s ACE account portal.
On August 25, 2010, U.S. Customs and Border Protection held a webinar on Management by Account1 during which it announced that it is working on several high impact projects to enable it to pursue an account based approach to doing business.
CBP has posted the minutes from the May 11, 2010 COAC meeting that was held in Philadelphia. Topics discussed at the meeting include trade facilitation, 10+2, global supply chain security, bonds, intellectual property rights, ACE, etc. (See ITT's Online Archives or 05/13/10 news, 10051314, for BP summary providing an overview of topics discussed at the meeting.)
During the July 28, 2010 meeting of the COAC Importer Security Filing Subcommittee, CBP officials and Subcommittee members discussed various issues, highlights of which include:
CBP has posted an updated version of its Trade Support Network Leadership matrix, which lists all of the TSN committees and subcommittees with the Trade and CBP/Gov Co-Chairs and the ACE Support Team (AST) Business Leads. The matrix also includes a list of the current TSN Trade Ambassadors.
CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that the ACE Certification Environment will be unavailable beginning at 8:00 a.m. EDT on August 26, 2010. The ACE Certification environment will be available for testing again at 6:00 a.m. EDT on August 27, 2010.