U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a new "Trade Engagement Biweekly Reports" which summarize topics discussed during workshops held to develop the business requirements for Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Release 5.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted to its Web site its quarterly report on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) entitled Report to Congress: The Automated Commercial Environment. This report is dated March 31, 2005 and covers the January 1, 2005 - March 31, 2005 period.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted to its Web site its quarterly report on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) entitled Report to Congress: The Automated Commercial Environment. This report is dated March 31, 2005 and covers the January 1, 2005 -March 31, 2005 period.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an announcement and other information stating that it has implemented a new infrastructure that will replace the existing 800 dial-up services that currently support the trade's interface to the Automated Commercial System (ACS) and Automated Export System (AES).

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that system changes were made to the periodic daily statement program to allow summaries with Census warnings to appear on the periodic daily statement. CBP states that prior to the above changes, summaries with Census warnings were excluded from the periodic statement program. According to CBP, summaries associated with periodic statement will have a payment type indicator of 6, 7, or 8. The payment type indicator is located in the entry summary record identifier 30 (input), in position 53. (See today's ITT, 05080805, for BP summary of CBP general notice on this and other changes to periodic statement.) (Adm: 05-0900, dated 08/04/05, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2005/2005-0900.ADM.)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice that announces changes in its National Customs Automation Program (NCAP) test concerning periodic monthly deposit of estimated duties and fees.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a new set of frequently asked questions and answers (FAQs) about the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE).

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of August 1, 2005. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (CFTA) tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 08/01/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice announcing that the next two groups, or clusters, of ports to be deployed for the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)/National Customs Automation Program (NCAP) test concerning the transmission of automated truck manifest data are the Douglas, AZ and Pembina, ND clusters.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of July 25, 2005. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (CFTA) tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 07/25/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)