During the annual National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America’s Government Affairs Conference, a Food and Drug Administration official stated that PREDICT¹ is currently deployed in 13 of 16 FDA districts.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS# 11-000219 which contains guidelines intended to provide uniform national procedures for entry deletion and entry or entry summary cancellation in ACS, ACE and for EIP/RLF.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a September 2011 update on its progress with the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). With this update, CBP is pushing back certain dates for the Participating Government Agency (PGA) web services and Document Image System capabilities, announcing additional dates for e-manifest: Rail and Sea (M1), and elaborating on its plans for automated export processing.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted updates on its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) as of September 2011. CBP outlines and provides certain statistics on deployed ACE capabilities, such as e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1), Importer Security Filing (ISF), Participating Government Agency (PGA) access to ACE, etc. CBP also provides an update on the project status of: (i) ITDS initiatives, which include PGA interfaces/interoperability, PGA Message Set, and Document Image System; (ii) full deployment of M1, which is scheduled for the winter of 2012; and (iii) Cargo Release.

In CSMS #11-000217, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reminds that trade that effective September 22, 2011, the use of ABI to file Post Summary Corrections for ACE entry summaries types 01 and 03 will be mandatory. The paper Post Entry Amendments (PEAs) will no longer be allowed for such entry summaries filed in ACE.

Broker Power is providing readers with some of the top stories for September 12-16, 2011 in case they were missed last week.

The Trade Support Network¹ will be meeting on September 22-23, 2011 to continue discussions on the development of the Automated Commercial Environment. One of the many topics that will be covered is the priority ACE entry summary edits needed by the trade, and CBP’s new “filter” concept for meeting this need.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted a report to Congress on the establishment of a Risk Assessment Methodology (RAM) to systematically analyze 100% of shipments within CPSC’s jurisdiction to ensure that adequate resources are dedicated to the highest risk shipments as indicated by targeting rules. CPSC believes that this system would result in less “port shopping” and more inspection and sampling, but would also allow consistently compliant products to move faster through the ports.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000216 stating that the introduction of ACE M1 will require all brokers participating in Rail Line Release to have Entry Banks created in ACE. The ACE Entry Bank numbers must be unique and cannot overlap with the ACS Entry Bank numbers. All Entry Banks must be created in the ACE Portal no later than Friday, 9/23/11.For more information on how to create and maintain Entry Banks in the ACE Portal, please refer to the User Guide distributed in CSMS #11-000208.

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 October 4, 2011 in El Paso, TX from 1 pm to 6 pm.