On April 4, 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin spoke at the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA) Annual Conference, where he discussed the need to expedite how legitimate goods move through the ports, including trimming transaction costs, and coordinating with other government agencies1.
CBP has issued a CSMS message announcing that the planned outage of the ACE Certification Environment for Monday, April 11, 2011 has been canceled. (CBP has previously issued a CSMS message stating that the ACE CERT Environment would be unavailable for a few hours on April 11.)
The International Trade Data System Board's recent fiscal year 2010 report contains an update on the progress of ITDS implementation by Participating Government Agencies since 2009, and includes information on pilots with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Coast Guard, Environmental Protection Agency, and Food Safety and Inspection Service; in addition to an antidumping/countervailing duty ACE module with the International Trade Administration, and an interface for the DOT’s planned International Freight Data System and ACE. Other PGAs worked on their agreements with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
CBP has posted a document providing an April 2011 update on the status of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) program, including updates on the deployment of Rail and Sea Manifest (M1), post-summary corrections (PSCs), and Cargo Release. See future issue of ITT for details on the status of ACE.
As reported earlier, the February 2011 TSN Monthly Committee Report includes information from those who attended an ACE Cargo Release validation session held on February 2-3, 20111. Members were focused on determining which of their trade requests (GIFs, Great Idea Forms) were “in scope” for the Cargo Release segment of ACE, and could be developed for it.
Broker Power is providing readers with some of the top stories for March 28-April 1, 2011 in case they were missed last week.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
At a March 2011 roundtable discussion with the private sector, CBP Commissioner Alan Bersin characterized the agency’s overarching trade challenge as transforming “systems geared to a world that no longer exists,” and asked the trade representatives in attendance to help identify the changes that CBP needs to make to become more relevant.
On March 15, 2011, U.S. Council for International Business members and staff met with U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin and his senior staff as part of Bersin's Trade Day Agenda, to share USCIB's priority recommendations, including a list of 18 potential C-TPAT benefits.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the March 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update, which provides information on Post Summary Corrections (PSCs), including CBP’s timeframe for deploying PSC functionality.