CBP Issues Report to Trade On Updated ACE/ITDS Standard Data Set
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a report for the trade regarding the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)/International Trade Data System (ITDS) Standard Data Set (SDS), which is updated through February 20, 2006 and is based on SDS version 4.4.
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CBP states that this February 2006 version reflects the data requirements of the following 22 Participating Government Agencies (PGAs) and indicates where those requirements correspond to data currently collected by CBP:
Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS)
Foreign Trade Zones Board (FTZB)
U.S. Census Bureau
International Trade Administration, Import Administration
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
International Trade Commission (ITC)
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms(ATF) 1
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
Maritime Administration (MARAD)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Tax and Trade Bureau(TTB) 1
1These PGAs have been added to the list since October 2005. As more agencies are approved for incorporation into ITDS, the SDS will be adjusted to meet their border information needs.
SDS will cover data needs for imports, exports, and land, sea, and air in-transit. The SDS will cover PGA needs for imports, exports, and in-transits by land, sea, and air. It will encompass information about conveyances, crew, and cargoes.
No single transaction will require reporting of all SDS elements. CBP notes that no single international trade transaction will require the reporting of all parts of the SDS.
In addition, the report does not differentiate between information that will be provided only once upon account establishment with ACE/ITDS and that which will be required on a transaction basis.
CBP presents SDS in series of spreadsheets. In is report, CBP presents the details of certain aspects of ACE/ITDS SDS in a series of spreadsheets described below:
Part I. This 122-page spreadsheet shows mappings to the individual agencies and the documents that are currently used to collect these elements. For example, a Transportation Reference Number data element is required by APHIS, BLS, Census, TTB, and Automated Export System Trade Interface Requirements (AESTIR).
Part II. This 3-page spreadsheet shows the data elements currently collected by CBP only and not included in the SDS. For example, the General Order Status Code data element is required in the Customs Automated Manifest Interface Requirements (CAMIR) and on the CBP 7512.
Part III. This 4-page spreadsheet shows a sample of material being worked on to map the SDS data elements to current CBP data sets and the WCO data model. For example, the Split Shipment Indicator data element is mapped to the Air International Air Transport Association (IATA), Customs Cargo Report Message (CUSCAR), Customs Conveyance Report Message (CUSREP), and Road X12 358.
Comments may be submitted. CBP states that it welcomes suggestions, and that comments and questions can be submitted to either or both of the Trade Support Network-ITDS committee co-chairs, Sandra Scott (Sandra.Scott@Yellowroadway.com) and Max Castillo (mcastill@ora.fda.gov).
ITDS team responds to trade questions about previous version of SDS. BP has also obtained a copy of the responses from the ITDS team to questions posed as a result of the previous version of the SDS.
For example, in response to a question, the ITDS team states that the goal is to make the ACE/ITDS standard data set the entire universe of data that would be required from the trade under ACE/ITDS.
In answering another question on whether the U.S. border states, departments of Insurance, Agriculture, Transportation, EPA, and weights and measures will be brought into the picture, the team states that CBP is looking at Federal requirements only.
(Version 4.4 was expected to be presented at a Trade Support Network (TSN) meeting (held February 27-March 1, 2006) and to be made available prior to that meeting in order to allow it to be reviewed.)
ITDS SDS trade report (dated 02/20/06) available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/trade_support_network/requirements/intl_trade_data/itd_std_data_set_rpt.ctt/itd_std_data_set_rpt.xls.
TSN ITDS Committee responses to trade questions available via email by emailing documents@brokerpower.com.