U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its Automated Commercial Environment application form.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a notice announcing that the next meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC)¹ will be held on May 9, 2008 in Washington, DC.

On April 15, 2008, Federal Maritime Commissioner Anderson issued a statement regarding the FMC's fiscal year 2009 budget before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Highlights of his comments include:

The International Trade Data System has posted the 2008 quarter 1 issue of its ITDS e-Newsletter. The newsletter covers the Coast Guard joining ITDS, CPSC announcing the development of a new Import Surveillance Division, the completion of the first version of the ACE Portal Reports Dictionary, etc. (e-Newsletter available at http://www.itds.gov/linkhandler/itds/news/e_newsletters/1st_qrtr_nwsltr.ctt/1st_qtr_nwsltr.pdf)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ACE Portal Accounts CSMS message announcing that it will soon begin implementing a new policy regarding inactive Automated Commercial Environment Secure Data Portal accounts.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a summary of changes to the Automated Export System Trade Interface Requirements (AESTIR) to its Web site, indicating that Version 1.0 was changed on April 14, 2008 as follows:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ACE Reports CSMS message stating that CBP-sponsored telephone training on the Authorized Data Extract (ADE) will begin during the week of April 16, 2008¹.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of April 14, 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, dated 04/14/08, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/.)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a Truck Manifest CSMS message announcing that it accomplished three Automated Commercial Environment e-Manifest enhancements and fixes over the weekend of April 12 - 14, 2008, as follows:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a PowerPoint presentation providing an overview of the Automated Commercial Environment delivery entitled Cargo Control and Release (CCR).