U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that it will be holding a free webinar on January 13, 2011 for ACE broker and importer Portal account holders on working with CBP forms and declarations in ACE.
Broker Power is providing readers with some of the top ITT articles for December 20 - December 30, 2010, in case they were missed during the holiday season.
CBP has issued the December 2010 ACE Trade Account Owner (TAO) Update. Among other things, the TAO update lists the preliminary and final Periodic Monthly Statement dates for 2011, provides instructions for setting up a rail and sea carrier ACE Portal account, and details recent ACE updates.
During a December 2010 trade association webinar, a CBP official discussed CBP’s new document imaging system in the Automated Commercial Environment. At this webinar, a CBP official provided additional details on DIS, including the types of forms that DIS can currently support, the limitation of current trade participation to ACE early adopters, and CBP’s work with additional participating government agencies.
The ITDS Product Information Subcommittee’s Board of Directors has issued the final version of its guidance report discussing how global e-commerce data could be integrated into the decision-support process for government admission of products at international borders.
CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that effective December 22, 2010, filers will not be able to specify (using the ACS HP transaction) that an ACE entry summary is to be paid on an individual basis (i.e., Payment Type Code = 1 on the input H-Record), until such time that the preliminary statement has actually been generated. This applies to an ACE entry summary scheduled for either a Daily statement or a Periodic Monthly statement. If the filer attempts to do so, the following error message will be returned: “ACE Summary Required to be on a Statement."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the August, September, and October/November Trade Support Network monthly activity reports, which summarize the activity of all of the TSN Committees and Subcommittees for those months.
CBP has posted an updated version of its 2010 ACE accomplishments fact sheet. Most recently, in September 2010, CBP trained more than 1000 medium to heavy Entry Summary, Account, and Revenue (ESAR) Post-Summary Corrections (PSC) functionality users from the Office of Field Operations (OFO), Office of International Trade, and Office of Information and Technology (OIT). This two-day training course enabled users to perform additional entry summary tasks using ACE.
On December 7, 2010, Representative Brady (R), current Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee (and likely incoming Subcommittee Chairman) addressed the Chamber of Commerce’s "North American Competitiveness and the Global Supply Chain” Summit, focusing on pending free trade agreements and expiring preference programs.