CBP posted the slides from a July 14 presentation on Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). Presenters included CBP officials as well as Amy Magnus, Director of Customs Affairs and Compliance at A.N. Deringer and Stuart Schmidt, manager of trade compliance at UPS. The presentation includes slides on "ACE Entry Summary Post Statement Requests for Documents and CBP Forms 28, 29, 4647" and "ACE Entry Summary Post Summary Corrections, Rejections and Lifecycle."
Mexican, U.S. and Canadian trade officials are fully committed to developing and implementing a unified North American single window portal for the import and export of goods, but the broader trade agenda continues to take precedent over the initiative, said Mexican trade officials at a Peterson Institute of International Economics event on July 15. The U.S. is aiming to implement its single window, the Automated Commercial Environment and International Trade Data System, by 2016 and then will turn its attention to the unified portal, said CBP deputy commissioner Kevin McAleenan in June (see 14061803).
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CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP will add a number of new features to the Automated Commercial Environment in a July 12 update, the agency said in a information notice. The deployment will add unified filing of cargo release and importer security filing data, it said. Six shipment types will be allowed within ACE Cargo Release: Standard or regular filings, To Order Shipments, Military and Government, U.S. Goods Returned, International Mail Shipments, and Outer Continental Shelf Shipments. All others will need to be filed as stand-alone ISF transactions, it said. The update will also add system validations for entry summaries, it said. Users will see new system error messages for informal entry restrictions, charges restrictions, taxes and other fees, it said.
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CBP will temporarily allow non-automated consolidated freight stations, warehouses and terminals to release cargo based on screen printouts presented to them by filers while the agency conducts its Simplified Entry pilot, it said on July 2. CBP says the interim procedures will allow non-automated facilities that don’t get electronic releases to handle entries filed under the pilot. Simplified Entry does away with the filing of paper Form 3461, so CBP won’t be creating courtesy copies or otherwise stamping forms, it said.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission will hold a public workshop on Sept. 18 to discuss electronic filing of certificates of compliance as part of the import entry process. CPSC says it will use input it gets from the workshop to inform its implementation of electronic filing at time of entry, which may take the form of an electronic document or data elements in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). Registration is required by Aug. 8 for presenters, and Sept. 5 for all others who want to attend the workshop, which will also be webcast. Registration will be available (here). CPSC will also accept written comments by Oct. 31.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP will hold an outreach event in San Francisco on July 17 at 9:30-11:30 a.m. to discuss the rollout of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) with the trade community. Steve Hilsen, director of business transformation at CBP’s ACE business office will discuss upcoming ACE deployments, new functionality, and mandatory dates for filing through ACE. Space for the event is limited, said CBP. To register, email Elizabeth Valentini at elizabeth.a.valentini@cbp.dhs.gov.