CBP Administrative Messages, Web Postings, Etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that it published in the May 8, 2007 Federal Register a notice announcing that e-Manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes would be mandated for all land border ports in Idaho and Montana. The requirement to submit e-Manifests at these ports will be implemented on August 6, 2007. (See ITT's Online Archives or 05/09/07 news, 07050905, for BP summary of the FR notice.) (Adm: 07-0113, dated 05/08/07, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2007/2007-0113.ADM)
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1. Next Group of Ports for Mandatory e-Manifest: Truck for Advance Cargo Information
2. CBP Posts Spreadsheet on Changes and/or Fixes to ACE, Etc.
CBP has posted a spreadsheet entitled "ACE Workplan Schedule," which lists the changes and/or fixes to ACE that have been scheduled for deployment, lists the changes and/or fixes that are approved and are to be scheduled, candidates waiting approval (not yet scheduled), proposed problem tracking report codes (PTRs) and change request codes (CRs). This list of changes and/or fixes contains only those that impact the trade community. (See ITT's Online Archives or 04/23/07 news, 07042305, for previous BP summary listing changes and/or fixes to ACE scheduled for deployment.) (ACE Workplan Schedule Spreadsheet, posted 05/04/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/trade_workplan.ctt/trade_workplan.xls)
3. Various Postings to CBP's Web Site
CBP has posted to its Web site the following:
Instructions related to preparing, sending mandatory ISA, etc. CBP has posted instructions related to preparing and sending the mandatory Interconnection Security Agreement (ISA) to CBP. (All participants that transmit data directly to CBP's Automated Export System (AES) or Automated Commercial System (ACS) are required to have a signed ISA on file with CBP.) CBP has also posted ISAs for MPLS/MQ users, Trade Internet VPN users, and Frame/MQ users. (CBP information and ISAs available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/operations_support/automated_systems/isa/)
Dayton CBP officers seize more than 900 "blood diamonds." CBP has issued a press release announcing that CBP officers in Dayton, Ohio seized 957 small blood diamonds, also known as conflict diamonds, in April 2007 at the DHL-HUB in Wilmington, Ohio for violations of the Clean Diamond Act. (CBP press release, dated 05/09/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/05092007.xml)