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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the March 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update, which provides information on the ACE deployment of Importer Security Filing reports for C-TPAT members, ISF status queries for Portal accounts, etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the March 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update, which provides information on ACE Cargo Release, including CBP’s timeframe for awarding the contract for its development.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the March 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update, which includes information on the deployment of the ACE Document Image System (DIS), including its timeframe for moving from testing to deployment.
According to CBP's ACE ABI CATAIR Change Record for 2011, the Importer/Consignee Create/Update chapter was updated on March 16, 2011 to correct output record descriptions. This chapter provides input and output record layouts for ABI filers to add information to or update existing name and address information in the Importer/Consignee File. This process was previously identified with CBP Form (CBPF) 5106 (Notification of Importer's Number or Notice of Change of Name or Address).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated (April 2011) version of its comprehensive document on the Automated Commercial Environment entitled "ACE Frequently Asked Questions."