CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of June 30, 2008. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)

In June 24, 2008 written testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, Treasury Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax, Trade, and Tariff Policy Skud discussed the International Trade Data System (ITDS), among other things.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the follow Automated Commercial Environment documents:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message reminding the trade that certain transaction sets for ACE release M1 (e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail for advance cargo information purposes)¹ which are currently posted to CBP's Web site are in draft form and subject to revision.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has revised the following CBP Trade Virtual Private Network (VPN) documents to provide updated contact information for Verizon: Connectivity Recommendations, which provides VPN connectivity recommendations; and Deciding Which VPN Solution is Best for Your Company, which provides four scenarios that need to be considered when deciding which method to use to connect to the CBP Trade Partner VPN Infrastructure.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE Workplan Schedule," which provides a list of the changes and/or fixes to the Automated Commercial Environment and other systems it interfaces with that were scheduled for deployment on May 31, 2008 and June 21, 2008.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message stating that on June 24, 2008, ACE experienced a nationwide problem impacting both CBP and the Trade; however, ACE service was restored at 13:20 EDT on June 24, 2008. While the access problem occurred, all users were unable to access ACE. Additionally, Trade users were not able to submit e-manifests via the Portal. However, EDI messages were able to be sent to ACE. (Original CSMS message announcing the problem is available here.) (CSMS 08-000109, dated 06/24/08, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17117&page=&srch_argv=08-000109&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby)

The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.):

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ACE Portal Accounts and ACE Reports CSMS message announcing that the following ACE (Automated Commercial Environment) Account Revenue report enhancements have been made to improve performance:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an "ACE Entry Summary, Accounts and Revenue at a Glance" fact sheet.