CBP Administrative Messages, Web Postings, Etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a press release announcing that it has completed installations of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) electronic manifest (e-Manifest) in all land border ports in New York. With New York implemented, ACE e-Manifest filing is now available at 49 of the 99 U.S. land border ports. (CBP press release, dated 10/10/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/10102006.xml)
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1. CBP Completes Installation of ACE e-Manifest in New York (ACE e-Manifest Now Available at 49 of the 99 U.S. Land Border Ports)
2. Weekly TRQ/TPL Commodity Report as of October 10, 2006
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ)/tariff preference level (TPL) commodity report as of October 10, 2006. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain BFTA, CAFTA-DR, JFTA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, CAFTA-DR, CBTPA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (Chile FTA) TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 10/10/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
3. Various Postings to CBP's Web Site
CBP has recently posted the following to its Web site:
ACE fact sheet posted. CBP has posted to its Web site a fact sheet on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). The fact sheet covers information on the ACE Secure Data Portal, periodic payments, ACE portal account facts, e-Manifests, ACE locations, etc. (CBP fact sheet, dated 09/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/newsroom/fact_sheets/trade/ace_at_a_glance.ctt/ace_at_a_glance.pdf)
CBP's El Paso sector swears in first training class of FY 2007. CBP has posted to its Web site a press release announcing that CBP's El Paso sector Border Patrol agents welcomed the first class of new Border Patrol agents for fiscal year (FY) 2007. The new class, consisting of 38 members, is part of the presidential mandate calling for 6,000 agents. (CBP press release, dated 10/04/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/10042006.xml)