U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a notice announcing that it has designated import safety as a Priority Trade Issue (PTI). According to CBP sources, thisis the first time that import safety has been designated as a PTI.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site the minutes from the February 13, 2008 meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of the Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC) in Tucson, AZ. (COAC meeting minutes, posted 04/07/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_outreach/coac/meetings/coac_final.ctt/coac_final.doc.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a Truck Manifest and Automated Broker Interface CSMS message stating that the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Certification Environment will be available for trade testing on April 15, 2008 and cancelling its previous message which stated that it would not be available for trade testing on April 15, 2008 from 7:00 a.m. EDT until 11:00 p.m. EDT. (See ITT's Online Archives or 03/31/08 news, 08033145 1, for BP summary of CBP's previous CSMS message.) (CSMS 08-000047, dated 04/07/08, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17054&page=&srch_argv=08-000047&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby.)
In December 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a notice announcing the phased enforcement of mandatory Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes at all land border ports in Alaska beginning February 11, 2008.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ACE Reports CSMS message announcing that the Authorized Data Extract (ADE), is now available to all Importer and Broker Automated Commercial Environment Portal Accounts.
The following have been issued by CBP:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the March 2008 Automated Commercial Environment Trade Account Owner (TAO) monthly update as an attachment to an ACE Portal Accounts CSMS message.
In early March 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a Truck Manifest CSMS message on the Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest update that is currently scheduled to be implemented on April 5, 2008.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted three additional chapters to its "ACE ABI CATAIR" document that it is building to replace the current Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document.
The Journal of Commerce reports that according to the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports' harbor commissions, the ports can operate under two separate Clean Truck Programs, even though they comprise a single harbor complex, as their fees, timeline for retiring old trucks and deadline for reducing pollution are the same. (JoC, dated 03/27/08, www.joc.com)