CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP will “gradually deploy” a series of changes to the ACE Portal from December 2022 through February 2023 as part of phase 3 of its portal modernization scheme, it said on a new webpage detailing the changes. “Phase 3 changes will include updates to the References tab and the migration of other functionality from the legacy ACE Portal to the modernized platform,” CBP said.
CBP will during the week of Dec. 12 “activate all pending national permits in ACE” created for brokers with only a district permit as it works to transition all those brokers over as part of its customs broker modernization regulatory changes that take effect Dec. 19 (see 2210170071), it said in a CSMS message. “This activity will not have any effect on brokers already holding an active national permit,” CBP said.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP will delay it’s ACE production “go-live” date for ocean house bill release until March 5, 2023, it said in a CSMS message. Likewise, its deployment of several functionalities in the certification environment has been rescheduled for Dec. 14, the message said.
CBP will take into account a long ACE outage that affected the uploading of documents in support of protests, and will consider whether protests should be denied for a lack of documents on a “case-by-case” basis, CBP officials said on the agency’s bi-weekly ACE call Dec. 8. CBP’s Office of Field Operations has sent out an internal message directing the Centers of Excellence and Expertise not to deny protests due to a lack of documents from Sept. 16, when the problem began, to Dec. 1, when the problem was fixed (see 2212020067) the official said. However, protests must be looked at individually because the agency can’t assume that “everybody’s denial” is based on the uploading issue, she said. CBP will not be sending out individual messages reminding protest filers to upload documents, another official said, and filers should get their documents uploaded now that the issue is resolved.
CBP should develop a single automated system for its detention and seizure process, as well as a portal for rightsholders and importers to allow for communication with CBP when infringement of intellectual property rights is suspected, the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee said in recommendations adopted at its Dec. 7 meeting.
The House-Senate compromise defense bill does not include the Inform Consumers Act, an amendment that was part of the Senate bill, which would have required that high-volume sellers online be identified and reachable. Trade groups that represent intellectual property rights holders had hoped that the bill would become law this year since it had been part of a different House package and was in the Senate bill (see 2210260087).