U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that Post Summary Correction (PSC) functionality was deployed to ACE on June 4, 2011.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an expanded draft ABI CATAIR Chapter for the Participating Government Agency Message Set (aka the standard data set), which is a single, harmonized set of information that will be collected electronically from the trade by CBP on behalf of PGAs. It will allow CBP and PGAs to make decisions about what cargo can come into the U.S. without the myriad paper forms currently required. CBP has also posted a draft appendix providing the codes and qualifiers for the PGA Message Set.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the May 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update, which provides information on ACE Cargo Release, trade testing of e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail (M1), a DTOPS issue, etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
On May 26, 2011, the fiscal year 2012 Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill was introduced in the House after being reported by the House Appropriations Committee. This bill would provide funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as well as other DHS agencies.
Various U.S. government agencies are seeking comments on the following information collections for which they have requested or intend to request Office of Management and Budget approval or extension of approval (see notices for specific details):
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message stating that on February 3, 2011, the U.S. State Department ceased to recognize the Netherlands Antilles as an independent country due to the Netherland’s dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles. As a result, the islands that once made up the country can no longer receive Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) benefits.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that it will deploy enhanced ACE capabilities related to Entry Summary, Accounts and Revenue (ESAR) that will provide new Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) capabilities to accommodate Post Summary Corrections (PSC) for entry summaries filed in ACE.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an updated version of its fact sheet on the ACE Secure Data Portal Reports, which provides information on the features and types of ACE reports and benefits users can receive from using them.