U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing an additional 30 day comment period on a new proposed information collection, the Automated Commercial Environment Trade Survey, which it plans to submit to the Office of Management and Budget for review and approval.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that two revised ACE ABI CATAIR chapters supporting the future deployment of Post Summary Correction (PSC) functionality have been posted. CBP previously stated that three revised ACE ABI CATAIR chapters (including these two) containing new search criteria and data elements for PSC functionality would be issued¹.

CBP has posted an ACE Entry Summary Rejection Response form to its website. Filers may use this form in response to a CBP initiated ACE entry summary rejection to provide comments to CBP regarding the rejected entry summary.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an updated version of its fact sheet on ACE ocean and rail manifest capabilities (e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail, or M1). CBP states that ACE e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail will set the stage for ACE multi-modal manifest processing, which will bring all modes of transportation (sea, rail, air and truck) into a common ACE environment. It will also include the capabilities that will help identify high-risk shipments and facilitate processing of legitimate cargo.

CBP has posted the following updated ACE fact sheets:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a final rule, effective May 12, 2011, amending its regulations concerning the mandatory electronic transmission of inward foreign manifests for vessels transporting bulk and certain break bulk cargo to the U.S. to make several technical corrections, including removing obsolete language that refers to vessel carriers who do not transmit cargo declaration information electronically (non-automated carriers).

During a recent webinar, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Revenue Division officials provided an update on the process and problems with continuous bonds. CBP officials provided Revenue Division statistics on the volume the continuous bonds and other bond documents, rejection rates, and listed the top 10 rejection reasons.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.

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