U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message announcing the November 2006 ACE Carrier Outreach events. Below is a listing of the events, which provide the trade with information on ACE and the filing of electronic truck manifests:

(Will Not be Provided in Tucson)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice designating the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Truck Manifest System (e-Manifest: Truck¹) as the approved Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for the transmission of the data required by the Trade Act of 2002.

CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ)/tariff preference level (TPL) commodity report as of October 23, 2006. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain BFTA, CAFTA-DR, JFTA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, CAFTA-DR, CBTPA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA (Chile FTA) TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report, dated 10/23/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a press release announcing that the agency is beginning to implement ACE e-Manifest: Truck for Trade Act of 2002 (advance electronic cargo manifest) purposes, as follows:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice in the Federal Register and posted a document to its Web site regarding the 7th annual Trade Symposium that is to be held on December 13-15, 2006 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a fact sheet on Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) features that will be coming over the next few years.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted its October 2006 Modernization Monthly newsletter to its Web site. The following are "highlights" of some of the topics addressed in the newsletter:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an ABI administrative message outlining the changes to the Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) document covered by Amendment 12 (October 2006), including changes made to entry summary, periodic daily statement, and Appendix P. (See ITT's Online Archives or 10/18/06 news, 06101815, for earlier BP summary of CATAIR Amendment 12.) (CBP Adm: 06-1156, dated 10/18/06, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2006/2006-1156.ADM)

On October 13, 2006, President Bush signed into law the conference version of H.R. 4954, entitled the "Security and Accountability for Every Port Act of 2006" (SAFE Port Act), a measure intended to improve maritime and cargo security through enhanced layered defenses, and for other purposes.