On June 26, 2009, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) by a vote of 219 to 212.
"Daily Update on Capitol Hill Trade Actions" is a regular feature of International Trade Today. The following are brief summaries of recent Capitol Hill actions.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that it is delaying the deployment of functionality to provide for the remote location filing of ACE entry summaries due to unforeseen circumstances.
The House Rules Committee has posted the amendments that have been offered for the "American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009" (ACES), H.R. 2454, which the House is scheduled to considered on June 26, 2009.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Ahern has named Assistant Commissioner, Office of International Trade, Daniel Baldwin as the executive business owner of the Automated Commercial Environment.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee filed a new version of H.R. 24541, "The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009" (ACES), with the House Rules Committee on June 22, 2009, in preparation for possible consideration by the full House on June 26th.
On June 12, 2009, the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal year 2010 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Transportation Security Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.) After being reported, the FY 2010 DHS appropriations bill was introduced in the House (H.R. 2892).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted four draft antidumping and countervailing duty ACE ABI CATAIR1 chapters, in advance of the deployment of AD/CVD entry summary type 03 and related processing in ACE.
CBP posted Amendment 20 to the Customs Automated Manifest Interface Requirements (CAMIR)-Intermodal. (Amendment, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/automated/automated_systems/ams/camir_intermodal/changes/change_20.ctt/change_20.doc)
CBP has posted the May 2009 Trade Support Network Monthly Committee Activity Report. The report states that the Food and Drug Administration is developing a FDA Drug Import DUNS Pilot program. (See future issue of ITT for details.) (Report, posted 06/17/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/automated/modernization/trade_support_network/tsn_monthly/tsn_monthly_may.ctt/tsn_monthly_may.pdf)