Broker Power is providing readers with some of the top stories for September 12-16, 2011 in case they were missed last week.
The Trade Support Network1 will be meeting on September 22-23, 2011 to continue discussions on the development of the Automated Commercial Environment. One of the many topics that will be covered is the priority ACE entry summary edits needed by the trade, and CBP’s new “filter” concept for meeting this need.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted a report to Congress on the establishment of a Risk Assessment Methodology (RAM) to systematically analyze 100% of shipments within CPSC’s jurisdiction to ensure that adequate resources are dedicated to the highest risk shipments as indicated by targeting rules. CPSC believes that this system would result in less “port shopping” and more inspection and sampling, but would also allow consistently compliant products to move faster through the ports.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000216 stating that the introduction of ACE M1 will require all brokers participating in Rail Line Release to have Entry Banks created in ACE. The ACE Entry Bank numbers must be unique and cannot overlap with the ACS Entry Bank numbers. All Entry Banks must be created in the ACE Portal no later than Friday, 9/23/11.For more information on how to create and maintain Entry Banks in the ACE Portal, please refer to the User Guide distributed in CSMS #11-000208.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing that the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (COAC) will meet on October 4, 2011 in El Paso, TX from 1 pm to 6 pm.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources state that the agency is still planning to discontinue the use of Post-Entry Amendments (PEAs) for entry summaries filed in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), effective September 22, 2011. For entry summaries filed after that date, only Post Summary Corrections (PSCs) will be allowed in ACE.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS#11-000214 stating that previous communications have identified access to the Shared Reports folder as one of the many general ACE Portal capabilities included in the e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1) release. However, since the deployment of M1 functionality, CBP has discovered an issue related to the Shared Reports folder. Users will not have access to the folder until the issue is resolved. A CSMS will be issued when access to the folder becomes available.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a document on in-bond authorization for rail and sea carriers in ACE since the deployment of ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1). The document provides instructions on how to create and maintain a carrier in-bond authorization, grant additional port access to an existing authorized partner, edit date parameters for authorized partners, remove ports from an authorized partner, and remove authorized partners from an account in ACE.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources state that September 18th will be the last "print date" for paper courtesy notices of liquidation for importers of record whose entry summaries are filed in ABI. These entry summaries will have a September 30 liquidation date. For all entry summaries scheduled for liquidation after September 30, importers using agents to file in ABI must obtain their liquidation information from their ACE Portal Accounts or Customs broker.
On September 7, 2011, the Senate Appropriations Committee amended, approved, and reported the fiscal year 2012 Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill (H.R. 2017), which would provide $410 million more for CBP than was enacted in FY 2011, including funds for cargo scanning pilots. In its report, the Committee urges CBP to encourage or require brokers to develop “know your customer” programs, consider a U.S. agent requirement for foreign importers, etc.