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FDA Soon to Issue Final Regulations on ACE Filing Requirements
November 15, 2016 by Brian Feito|Top News

MIAMI -- The Food and Drug Administration hopes to publish its final rule on ACE filing requirements by the end of November, said John Verbeten of FDA’s Division of Import Operations at the Florida Customs Brokers & Freight Forwarders Conference of the Americas on Nov. 14. The final rule, which follows a controversial proposal issued in June (see 1606300020), will be followed “sooner rather than later” by changes to FDA’s ACE Supplemental Guide to implement the new regulatory provisions, he said.

Coming PGA Data Requirements Seen as Troubling as ACE Expansion Continues
November 14, 2016 by Tim Warren|Top News

PROVIDENCE -- The addition of more Partner Government Agencies (PGAs) to ACE in coming months is likely to drive a difficult expansion in the data collected by the government, said Amy Magnus, director of customs affairs and compliance at A.N. Deringer, while speaking at the Northeast Cargo Symposium on Nov. 10. Despite significant progress in ACE in 2016, the new PGAs are bound to be a source of anxiety as 2017 approaches, she said. The "most chilling" agencies to be added are Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service "Core" and the Fish and Wildlife Service, she said.

Regulatory Audit Working Closely With CEEs on Compliance Surveys, CBP's Owen Says
November 10, 2016 by Tim Warren|Top News

NEW YORK -- The Centers of Excellence and Expertise are working closely with the Office of Regulatory Audit as it increasingly uses surveys to explore potential areas of compliance problems, said Todd Owen, CBP executive assistant commissioner, Office of Field Operations, Nov. 9 at the Apparel Importers Trade and Transportation Conference. Through the CEEs, "we look at all the disciplines that touch a company" so "there is that level of communication between the account managers, the import specialists and the auditors as we're going forward with this approach," he said. CBP is using “informed compliance” letters and questionnaires sent to importers as part of a broader shift toward the use of audit surveys in the agency’s compliance verification activities (see 1608090024).

CBP Releases Catalog of Available ACE Reports
November 8, 2016 |Customs

CBP released an "ACE Reports Catalog to provide a comprehensive inventory of all public 'canned' reports currently available in ACE," it said in a CSMS message (here). The catalog (here) is "designed to enhance the understanding of ACE Reports by clearly identifying, categorizing and describing reports available to ACE Reports users in the trade community," the agency said. "All reports are defined in a five column table that includes the subject area (e.g., Entry Summary or Cargo Release), the report number, report name, report description (including account types that have access) and a list of objects that appear in the report by default. The document is organized alphabetically by subject area (e.g., AD/CVD or Cargo Release) and reports are then sorted in ascending numeric order within each subject area." The catalog will "evolve over time" as needed, CBP said.