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 final rule, effective May 12, 2011, amending its regulations concerning the mandatory electronic transmission of inward foreign manifests for vessels transporting bulk and certain break bulk cargo to the U.S. to make several technical corrections, including removing obsolete language that refers to vessel carriers who do not transmit cargo declaration information electronically (non-automated carriers).

During a recent webinar, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Revenue Division officials provided an update on the process and problems with continuous bonds. CBP officials provided Revenue Division statistics on the volume the continuous bonds and other bond documents, rejection rates, and listed the top 10 rejection reasons.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.

Broker Power is providing readers with some of the top stories for May 2-6, 2011 in case they were missed last week.

On May 5, 2011, officials from Customs and Border Protection¹ and other agencies testified before a Senate Finance subcommittee² on antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) fraud and duty evasion. CBP’s testimony included the actions it plans to take to stem the circumvention, while Senators criticized CBP’s efforts to date and announced plans to reintroduce legislation to strengthen AD/CV enforcement.

Registration is open for the American Association of Exporters and Importers’ (AAEI) 90^th Annual Conference, which will be held on June 5-7, 2011 in New York. Among others, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Bureau of Industry and Security Undersecretary Eric Hirschhorn, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Alan Bersin are expected to speak at the conference.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is delaying its enforcement of the requirement that residue (such as chemicals or other bulk goods¹) imported in containers considered to be instruments of international traffic (IIT) be manifested, classified, and entered (i.e., formal entry, informal entry, or Section 321 entry). Enforcement is delayed pending the resolution of information technology issues (such as the ACE M1 release).

During recent trade events¹, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials discussed ACE Post Summary Correction functionality, including its expected spring 2011 deployment, its plan to only review certain PSC transmissions, and the ability of a filer other than the entry summary filer to submit PSCs. The act of filing a PSC will constitute “Customs business” as defined in 19 CFR Part 111.

CBP has posted a presentation providing an overview and status update on ACE. The presentation covers Entry Summary Accounts & Revenue (ESAR); e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail (M1); future Cargo Release; and air manifest.