U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing its plan to conduct a National Customs Automation Program (NCAP)1 test on ACE simplified entry capability. The test will reduce the information participants must file with CBP prior to arrival in the U.S. to 12 required, and three optional data elements. The initial phase of the test will only be for the air transportation mode and is available for nine accounts. Parties interested in participating in the test should contact CBP by November 17, 2011.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing its plan to conduct a National Customs Automation Program (NCAP) test concerning Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) simplified entry capability. The initial phase of the test will be open to entries filed in the air transportation mode only. Parties interested in participating in the test should contact CBP by November 17, 2011.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000279 to announce the dates for its two technical seminars for trade software developers. One will target ocean and rail software developers and will focus on CAMIR and X12 message formats that are required as part of the M1 Ocean and Rail Manifest Deployment. The second seminar will target ABI participants and will focus on current and future ACE deployments. The seminars will be on November 29-30, 2011 and December 1-2, 2011 in the D.C. metro area. The anticipated cost is $120 per person, and no more than 3 from a company can attend. Hotel and payment information will be provided.
Sources at U.S. Customs and Border Protection state that the late October "limited deployment" testing of M1 (ocean and rail e-manifest) user screens by CBP officers at the ports of Baltimore, MD; Buffalo, NY; and Brownsville, TX did not start as planned, and a new schedule is expected to be announced soon. This pilot test will allow CBP officers to assess the use of M1 by its officers and early adopters in the trade.
The Government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices for Nov 1-4, 2011 (note that some will also be given separate headlines):
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the September 2011 Trade Support Network (TSN) Committee Report. The report provides details on the following TSN component activities (partial list):
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000278 which states that they are still working to resolve a QX/WX Air In-Bond application issue uncovered in the production system. That application was deployed on August 8 but then was disabled when the problems was discovered. Development of the fix to resolve the issue is now complete and is being tested internally. CBP says it currently does not have a tentative timeline for deployment due to the on-going ACE M1 testing, but as soon as a reliable date is determined, the agency will send out a new CSMS announcing the date.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released a document on the eligibility criteria for the initial test of the Document Image System (DIS) in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). CBP states that to promote the filing of transactions and expedite the transition to ACE, CBP has determined that access to the capabilities within the DIS will be available to ACE entry summary filers and for ACE entry summaries only. This includes ACE entry summaries certified for release.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000276 stating that this month, the following ISF reports: (1) Filer, (2) Filer by Importer, and (3) the surety reports, will not be available either by email or through the ACE Portal until after November 9. CBP apologizes for any inconvenience.