U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000226 on the new AM 100 Courtesy Notice of Liquidation Report for importers. This Information Notice provides instructions on locating and running the AM 100 report, as well as information on customization.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000223 to announce two two technical seminars for trade software developers. The purpose of these seminars will be to discuss upcoming programming changes for new functionality scheduled to be delivered as part of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). Parties should notify CBP of their interest in the seminars by September 30, 2011.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000225, which it states clarifies its recently published Federal Register Notice announcing the discontinuation of mailed paper courtesy notices of liquidation for entry summaries filed via the Automated Broker Interface (ABI). CBP states it issued this clarification in response to questions received from the trade community.
The Trade Support Network’s Integrated Communications Subcommittee1 issued an overview and held a recent press conference on the TSN plenary held on September 22-23, 2011. During the plenary, CBP discussed a two-part “simplified entry” proposal which includes simplified release (subset of ISF + some additional data) and simplified (periodic) summary.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000222 to extend to October 14, 2011 (from Sept 23) the deadline for brokers to enter ACE Entry Banks for Rail Line Release. In addition, CBP is experiencing a problem in the ACE Portal that prevents users from viewing and creating ACE Entry Banks for Rail Line Release. If a broker has already created the ACE Entry Banks and cannot view them, do not attempt to enter this data again. CBP will send out a notice when this problem has been resolved.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000221 stating that CBP has not completed the deployment process for the AM 100 Courtesy Notice Liquidation Report. CBP is asking both the field and the trade to refrain from running the report or pulling any ad hoc data from the new liquidation tables until they have received an update that the deployment is complete. The hits on the tables by users are impacting the initial data load into the reports tables.
U.S. Customs and Border Inspection recently posted a revised version of its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) 101 "Topic" document, which provides a useful general overview of ACE, including the ACE Secure Data Portal, account management capabilities, report capabilities, revenue capabilities, cargo control and release, and entry summary processing. The document also discusses future ACE features.
A Food and Drug Administration official who spoke at the September 2011 annual NCBFAA1 Government Affairs Conference gave an update on the Border Interagency Executive Council's efforts to (i) align participating government agency (PGA) “trusted trader” programs; and (ii) share information and images via the Document Image System (DIS).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an overview of the Trade Support Network (TSN) and frequently asked questions on how the TSN provides business input to CBP on modernization issues. TSN committees provide information relating to specific business processes to CBP, including Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) requirement recommendations. These committees are formed and disbanded in parallel with the stages of ACE development. Many of the committees have also formed subcommittees to concentrate expertise in a specific area, such as drawback, bonds, Foreign Trade Zones, etc. (The TSN will be meeting on September 22-23, 2011.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a new document entitled “Guidance on Entry Deletion and Entry or Entry Summary Cancellation” in order to provide uniform national procedures for requesting such actions in ACS and ACE, and for requesting entry substitutions for EIP/RLF and at land border ports. The Guidance includes a deletion/cancellation worksheet and also discusses liquidated damages.