During the July 28, 2010 meeting of the COAC Importer Security Filing Subcommittee, CBP officials and Subcommittee members discussed various issues, highlights of which include:
CBP has posted an updated version of its Trade Support Network Leadership matrix, which lists all of the TSN committees and subcommittees with the Trade and CBP/Gov Co-Chairs and the ACE Support Team (AST) Business Leads. The matrix also includes a list of the current TSN Trade Ambassadors.
CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that the ACE Certification Environment will be unavailable beginning at 8:00 a.m. EDT on August 26, 2010. The ACE Certification environment will be available for testing again at 6:00 a.m. EDT on August 27, 2010.
CBP has posted an ACE ABI CATAIR Error Dictionary, a table containing detailed explanations of error messages for ACE entry summaries.
The International Trade Data System has posted the Executive Summary of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s ITDS concept of operations (ConOps) gap analysis of CBP’s ConOps and the ConOps of key admissibility Participating Government Agencies.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the Automated Commercial Environment Trade Account Owner July/August 2010 update.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that the revised ACE ABI CATAIR chapters for an upcoming ACE deployment have been posted to CBP’s website.
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a Private Sector Resources Catalog. DHS states that the catalog facilitates private sector access to the DHS resources needed to participate in the homeland security enterprise and help keep the U.S. secure. This catalog, the first to be targeted specifically towards private sector partners, collects the training, publications, guidance, alerts, newsletters, programs, and services available to the private sector across the Department. DHS adds that the catalog will be updated regularly.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message stating that revised ACE ABI CATAIR chapters for an upcoming ACE deployment will soon be posted to CBP's website.
At the July 13, 2010 Customs Electronic Systems Action Committee (CESAC) Plenary session, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials held a presentation on its own International Trade Data System Concept of Operations.