CBP Posts June 2006 Update on ACE e-Manifest: Truck
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a June 2006 update on ACE e-Manifest: Truck which states that it will soon be mandatory for all carriers to file their manifest electronically to comply with the Trade Act of 2002's mandatory advance cargo (manifest) information requirements.
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(CBP has previously announced that all land border ports will have e-Manifest in calendar year 2006 and that a notice making the use of e-Manifest mandatory for 2002 Trade Act purposes is expected to be published in the Federal Register in early summer 2006. See ITT's Online Archives or 05/22/06 news, 06052205, for BP summary of CBP's posting of "important" ACE e-Manifest guidelines for truck carriers, which discusses making e-Manifest mandatory, etc.)
Once e-Manifest becomes mandatory, PAPS, CAFES, QP/WP, and BRASS will no longer satisfy Trade Act of 2002. CBP states that once it becomes mandatory for all carriers to file their manifest electronically to comply with the Trade Act of 2002, the use of Pre-Arrival Processing System (PAPS), Customs Automated Forms Entry System (CAFES), QP/WP, Border Release Advance Screening and Selectivity (BRASS), and Free and Secure Trade (FAST) can continue. However, CBP will no longer accept those processes as satisfying the Trade Act of 2002. The one exception to this is FAST-NCAP, which CBP states will still satisfy the Trade Act requirements.
According to CBP, carriers, importers, and brokers should continue to use these processes to ensure that arriving trucks are cleared from the port of entry as expeditiously as possible.
e-Manifest only replaces paper manifest; entry or in-bond movement authorization still required. CBP notes that the electronic transmission of information with ACE e-Manifest: Truck only replaces the requirement to present a paper manifest. The transmission of the e-Manifest still requires either an entry or an in-bond movement authorization for the goods to proceed.
CBP update available at
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/carrier_info/ace_e_truck_062006.xml.
BP Note on Implementation of "Phase 4" Enforcement
CBP sources have confirmed that "Phase 4" enforcement of mandatory advance cargo information for truck carriers at ACE border ports was implemented as scheduled on June 15, 2006. (See ITT's Online Archives or 06/08/06 news, 06060805, for BP summary on the implementation of Phase 4 enforcement.)