CBP Administrative Messages, Web Postings, Etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message about driver/crew changes in Automated Commercial Environment that came with the September 9, 2007 deployment of Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1.
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1. FAST Driver Updates Must be Made Through FAST Enrollment Center
CBP notes that the A1 release provided for 12 account types, one of which is the "driver/crew" account. According to CBP, a prerequisite for this new account type was a reconciliation of Free and Secure Trade (FAST) and non-FAST drivers with the same commercial drivers license number. Some carriers may find that drivers who were added through the ACE portal prior to the A1 drop have been removed from their account. For the drivers that were removed, it will now be necessary to use the drivers' FAST ID to add them to their e-Manifest. CBP notes that all FAST driver updates must be made through the FAST enrollment center. (Adm: 07-0200, dated 09/13/07, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2007/2007-0200.ADM.)
2. Various Postings to CBP's Web Site
CBP has recently posted to the following to its Web site:
ACE error messages/solutions log. CBP has posted a reference guide to common errors and their solutions found in the ACE Secure Data Portal. The guide also includes helpful hints for the ACE portal. (Guide, posted 09/11/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/ace_welcome/errorlog_091007v2.ctt/errorlog%20091007v2.xls.)
ACE information on how to switch accounts, grant cross account access, and merge accounts. CBP has posted information on how to switch between accounts with a single sign on, grant cross account access, and merge accounts using the ACE Secure Data portal. (Information, posted 09/10/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/ace_welcome/ace_accounts.ctt/ace_accounts.doc.)
ACE e-Manifest: Truck deployment completed in Alaska. CBP has issued a press release announcing that it installed ACE truck processing capabilities at the port of Alcan, Alaska on August 28, 2007, completing deployment to the Alaska land border and nearly finishing efforts to bring e-Manifest: Trucks capabilities to all U.S. land border ports. E-Manifest: Truck capabilities will be operational at all 99 land border ports after ACE installation at the port of Piegan, Montana in September 2007. (Press release, dated 09/07/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/whats_new/ace_manifest_ak.xml.)
Know Before You Go travel guidance. CBP has posted updated "Know Before You Go" travel guidance. (Guidance, posted 09/05/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/publications/travel/knowbeforeyougo.ctt/knowbeforeyougo.pdf.)
Environmental assessment of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. CBP has posted the final programmatic environmental assessment for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative in the Land and Sea Environments. (Assessment, posted 09/10/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/travel/vacation/ready_set_go/land_travel/whti_pea.ctt/whti_pea.pdf.)
University of Virginia issues C-TPAT study. CBP has issued a press release on the issuance of a survey, conducted by the University of Virginia, on the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT). (See ITT's Online Archives or 09/12/07 news, 07091210, for BP summary on the report.) (Press release, dated 09/10/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/09102007_3.xml.)