During the February 25, 2010 Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC) meeting, CBP and Treasury officials discussed Automated Commercial Environment and the International Trade Data System development efforts.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a proposed rule to amend 19 CFR Parts 111 and 163 regarding customs broker recordkeeping requirements as they pertain to the location and method of record retention.
The Administration's fiscal year 20111 budget request for U.S. Customs and Border Protection indicates that in FY 2011, ACE will begin entering into an operation and maintenance steady state and forgo development of enhanced modernization capabilities.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Port of Chicago has issued a Pipeline announcing the automation of Census' import (i.e., Automated Broker Interface/Automated Commercial Environment) parameter change request form.
CBP has posted an updated version of its 2010 ACE accomplishments fact sheet. (Fact sheet, posted 03/16/10, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/fact_sheets/trade/ace_factsheets/ace_accomp/ace_accomp_10.xml)
U.S. Trade Representative negotiators have completed their third day of Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. Ten negotiating groups met, including industrial goods, agriculture, customs, rules of origin, government procurement, environment, and trade capacity building. TPP negotiators agreed to draft concept papers, exchange information, and undertake other work ahead of the second TPP negotiating round in June as part of their efforts to begin shaping a framework for the negotiation. (Notice, posted 03/17/10, available at http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/blog/2010/march/trans-pacific-partnership-negotiations-update-day-three)
CBP has posted an ACE resource contact guide to its website. (Guide, posted 03/17/10, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/automated/modernization/ace/ace_resource_guide.ctt/ace_resource_guide.pdf)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year 2009 which includes information on CBP's material weaknesses and instances of nonconformance, its progress in achieving its strategic goals, certain budget information, etc.
CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that it is moving the ACS programming changes required for the Food and Drug Administration's final rule on prior notice of food (including animal feed), which is imported or offered for import into the U.S. into Production (from Certification) on March 17, 2010. (Notice, posted 03/10/10, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/itt/itt.pl?F::ALLNEWS::2010/20100310/10031015.html)
CBP issued a CSMS message stating that on March 2, it announced that there was an issue with Cargo Exam Reports due in part to transitioning from one system to another. Work on a final solution is continuing. In the interim, CBP is making cargo exam data available for October, November, and December 2009 and January 2010. Users can now run the Aggregate and Detail Cargo Exam reports and receive data for all of 2009 and January 2010. CBP will update the ACE Portal News tab when additional information becomes available. (See ITT's Online Archives or 03/09/10 news, 10030905, for BP summary announcing there was no quick fix for the report.) (CSMS 000069, dated 03/15/10, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17851&page=&srch_argv=10-000069&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby)