U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a frequently asked questions and answers document to provide guidance to licensed Customs brokers on the submission of the Triennial Status Report and fee. The next triennial status report, in addition to a $100 fee, should be filed during the month of February 2012.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a CSMS message announcing that the Food and Drug Administration's Prior Notice System Interface (PNSI) was down for maintenance on November 19, 2011 between 1:00 AM EST and 12:00 PM EST. During this time, ACS, OASIS, and the link between ACS and OASIS were operational but PNSI was unavailable. Prior Notice could be submitted through the ABI/ACS system.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing that 26 Customs broker licenses are revoked without prejudice for failure to file the 2006 triennial status report and applicable fee.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing that the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (COAC) will meet on December 7, 2011 in Washington, D.C. There will be comment opportunities before and during the meeting, and the registration deadline to attend or listen to the webcast is December 5.
According to CBP officials, the upcoming ACE Simplified Entry Pilot, at this point, will exclude entries that have other government agency (OGA) requirements, such as Food and Drug Administration or Fish and Wildlife Service requirements, etc. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials also state that Simplified Entry will seek "best available" data that can be updated later. In addition, the submission of an ISF will still be required for the ocean mode, but the submission of ISF-like data will be voluntary for other modes.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice announcing that 469 Customs broker licenses are revoked by operation of law, without prejudice, for failure to file the 2009 triennial status report and applicable fee.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has newly posted the recording and presentation slides for its October 24, 2011 webinar on the ITDS Product Information Committee's draft report on the results of three pilot studies conducted to validate the business case for using e-commerce data, such as global product numbers/codes and electronic product catalogs. This webinar is part of a series of live trade webinars that CBP is hosting. Each webinar is made available for subsequent on-demand viewing online. Topics of previous webinars include ACE Courtesy Notice of Liquidation, the role of the broker, simplified entry, ACE Post Summary Corrections, etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the minutes of the October 4, 2011 Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection (COAC) meeting. At this meeting, CBP and COAC discussed topics including the role of the broker, simplified entry and summary, intellectual property rights enforcement, antidumping and countervailing duties, the global supply chain, etc.
On November 9, 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced its plans to conduct a test of Simplified Entry in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). While the initial test phase is only for the air mode, CBP has issued a news release stating that it is planning similar test phases in the ocean and rail environments for early to mid-2012. CBP also clarifies that the deadline for voluntary participants for the air mode test phase is November 17, 2011, and those volunteering must include information regarding their volume of entries and the ports expected to be utilized.