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DDTC Waives Filing Requirements for ACE Transition
December 22, 2015 |State Department

The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls is waiving requirements for exporters to provide CBP with their permanent export licenses prior to filing in the Automated Export System (AES) or Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), according to an industry notice posted to its website Dec. 21 (here). DDTC is electronically sending registration and licensing data to CBP through ACE on a daily basis, making it unnecessary for exporters to “deposit export licenses with CBP prior to filing,” it said. The waiver, which takes immediate effect, will remain in effect until DDTC amends its regulations to remove the requirement, said the agency.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
Obama Signs Omnibus Spending Bill into Law, Secures ACE and CBP Funding for FY 2016
December 21, 2015 |Top News

President Barack Obama signed the omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2016, providing $829.5 million for operation and improvement of CBP automation expenses, including $151.2 million set aside for Automated Commercial Environment development on Dec. 18 (here). Overall, the bill includes $8.6 billion for CBP, and also seeks to avoid Canadian and Mexican retaliatory tariffs by repealing meat country-of-origin labeling (COOL) regulations recently found by the World Trade Organization to violate global trade rules (see 1512160019).

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), World Trade Organization (WTO)
FDA Posts Chart of Required ACE Data Elements by Commodity
December 18, 2015 |FDA

The Food and Drug Administration recently posted to its website a diagram (here) outlining which data elements are required for filing in the Automated Commercial Environment, broken down by commodity. The diagram includes data elements required for all types of goods, as well as elements required specifically for foods, drugs, devices, biologics, tobacco and animal drugs and devices.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
ACE Cargo Release Submission Rate Increasing Slowly
December 18, 2015 by Tim Warren|Top News

The submission rate for cargo release continues to edge up, with some 11.6 percent of cargo release entries in the Automated Commercial Environment as of November, according to CBP's presentation that was part of an webinar hosted by Integration Point on Dec. 15 (here). CBP reported a 10.2 percent submission rate in October. The low levels of cargo release submissions is a source of some concern at CBP ahead of the ACE transition dates (see 1510190017 and 1511050059).

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)