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Customs Bill, ACE Mean Busy Times Ahead Likely for CBP's New Head of Regulations and Rulings
February 24, 2016 by Tim Warren|Top News

The new processes for antidumping and countervailing duty evasion investigations and intellectual property rights protections are likely to be some of the first items addressed by the CBP once customs reauthorization legislation is signed by President Obama, said Alice Kipel, CBP's new executive director of regulations and rulings (ORR), during a Feb. 23 interview. Only about two months into her new job (see 1602120034), Kipel already faces the daunting task of prioritizing some of the biggest changes in the agency's long history. In addition to implementation to the customs bill, Kipel will help oversee the regulatory process for Automated Commercial Environment rules as well as look to improve speeds on customs rulings responses, she said.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
FDA Posts List of Valid ACE Unit of Measure Codes
February 23, 2016 |FDA

The Food and Drug Administration recently posted a list of valid unit of measure codes for filings in the Automated Commercial Environment (here) to its ACE/ITDS webpage (here). Use of a code not included on the list will result in an ACE entry rejection, said FDA. Each level of packaging should be declared, and the same code cannot be declared more than once, it said. The list also includes examples for each commodity type.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
DOE to Lean on Customs Brokers for Success of New ACE Requirements for Energy Efficiency Standards
February 19, 2016 by Brian Feito|Top News

Customs brokers play a central role in the Energy Department’s plans to require submission of “certifications of admissibility” data elements in the Automated Commercial Environment at time of entry for products subject to energy efficiency standards, said DOE officials speaking at a workshop held Feb. 19 in Washington. A key motive behind the agency’s proposal is that it will prompt brokers to ask their importer clients whether products included in a given entry are subject to energy efficiency standards, forcing the importer to consider whether testing and certification are required, they said.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
APHIS to Clarify Lacey Act Requirements for FTZ Entries
February 18, 2016 by Tim Warren|Top News

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is drafting a "formal clarification" to spell out exemptions to Lacey Act declaration requirements for plant products entered from Foreign Trade Zones, an APHIS spokeswoman said in an email. There's been confusion over several years as to whether an exemption to the requirements applies to type 06 entries. With the move toward the Automated Commercial Environment, the agency plans to bring type 06 entries "into the fold of the Lacey Act declaration requirement," APHIS's Parul Patel, senior agriculturalist, Imports, Regulations, and Manuals, said at a National Association of Foreign Trade Zones conference on Feb. 9.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), Lacey Act, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
CBP Releases Guidance on Recordkeeping in ACE
February 17, 2016 |Customs

CBP posted a policy guidance on recordkeeping requirements in the Automated Commercial Environment (here). "As a matter of policy, CBP will not request an entry filer to produce the data (formerly contained in CBP Forms 7501, 3461, 214 or 7512) that the filer previously transmitted to and was retained by CBP unless CBP has a need for such records," the agency said. If CBP does need such records, the filer can retransmit or provide the data through an ACE report, it said. The guidance applies only to "entries/entry summaries and [Foreign Trade Zone] admissions filed in ACE," said CBP. "Supporting documentation that was used to create the data transmitted to CBP must be maintained by the filer and is not covered by this recordkeeping guidance regardless of whether the entry or FTZ admission was filed in ACE or ACS." CBP also noted that "entry data and information previously presented to and retained by CBP is not subject to a recordkeeping penalty for non-production if such data or information is subsequently requested." The way in which a broker or filer provides copies of the transmissions to the importer of record will be up to those parties, said CBP. The guidance doesn't apply to "the recordkeeping requirements or entry/entry summary production requirements of the United States Court of International Trade," said CBP.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)