CBP has issued a CSMS message reminding the trade that Phase 3 (nationwide deployment to all remaining ports) of ACE entry summary filing capabilities was to be deployed on June 18, 2009. This is the final deployment for the 39 volunteers that responded to CBP's original request for comments and indication of interest to participate in the entry summary test. Additional entry filers are still scheduled to be permitted to transmit ACE entry summaries beginning on June 29, 2009. ACE is also expected to support type 01 and 11 ACE entry summaries filed through remote location filing (RLF) by June 29, 2009. (CSMS 09-000248, dated 06/17/09, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17637&page=&srch_argv=09-000248&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby)
CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that it will hold a free ACE Information Seminar on July 1, 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska. (CSMS 09-000245, dated 06/15/09, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17634&page=&srch_argv=09-000245&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE Workplan Schedule," which lists the changes and/or fixes to the Automated Commercial Environment (and other systems it interfaces with) scheduled for deployment from April 25 - June 27, 2009.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that it has added additional information to the ACE "Bond Sufficiency Details" portlet.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a news release reminding members of the Free and Secure Trade program that all FAST cards are compliant with the new document requirements under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative that went into effect on June 1, 2009.
CBP Acting Commissioner Ahern testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Border, Maritime and Global Counterterrorism on plans for border security and progress to date. (Testimony, dated 06/11/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/congressional_test/border_progress.xml)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS providing an updated ACE entry summary filing deployment schedule.
The World Customs Organization will hold a "Coordinated Border Management" forum on June 29-30, 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. The inter-agency and business forum will focus on the potential for establishing an effective and efficient coordinated border management system. (Notice, available at http://www.wcoomd.org/event.htm)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will hold the first annual Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Northern Border Highway Carrier Conference on August 19, 2009 in Buffalo, NY.
CBP has issued the April 2009 ACE Trade Account Owner (TAO) update. The update covers topics such as the delay in ACE e-Manifest rejection functionality for e-Manifests submitted without WHTI-compliant document numbers, brokers responding to post summary requests for documents, CBP acceptable document formats, and the ESAR A2.2 entry summary deployment schedule. (TAO, dated May 2009, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/docs/17629_394708685/May_09_TAOFINAL.pdf)