CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:

CBP moved up the deployment date for Foreign Trade Zone entries in the Automated Commercial Environment following some initial concerns about adequate time for testing, said Cynthia Whittenburg, CBP executive director-trade policy and programs during the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America government affairs conference on Sept. 28. CBP previously said FTZ entries wouldn't be available for testing until after Feb. 27, alongside all other quota-related entry types that are scheduled to be deployed on the same day that ACE becomes mandatory. That plan raised some concerns among the Trade Support Network (see 1509100015).

The Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) for CBP will next meet Oct. 29 in Washington, CBP said in a notice (here).

CBP posted minutes of the meeting held July 29 by the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) (here). The meeting included a lengthy discussion of COAC’s recommendation to delay CBP’s deadline for Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) cargo release and entry summary (see 1507290066).

CBP posted summaries of the Standard Operating Procedures for CBP and Participating Government Agencies as part of the Automated Commercial Environment/International Trade Data System pilot (here). Links to the ACE Pilot procedure summaries are below:

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:

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CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:

Trade Support Network leadership issued recommendations to CBP in recent days that the agency allow live filing of quota and quota-related entry types in the Automated Commercial Environment in advance of CBP’s Feb. 28 mandatory use date, said Tom Gould, co-chair the TSN Trade Leadership Council’s Integrated Communications Subcommittee. CBP’s current plan to deploy ACE capabilities for quota-related entry types only after the legacy Automated Commercial System is switched off has TSN leadership “quite concerned” about the lack of time for live industry testing of several entry types, including foreign-trade zone entries, said Gould.