The World Shipping Council (WSC) has sent a letter to the House Homeland Security Committee urging the Committee to defeat H.R. 4899, the "Sail Only if Scanned Act," if it is offered as an amendment when the Committee considers H.R. 4954, the SAFE Port Act. According to the WSC, H.R. 4899 would require every ocean shipping container to be "scanned" in a foreign port before the container is loaded on the vessel for shipment to the U.S. (WSC letter, dated 04/18/06, available at http://www.worldshipping.org/king_letter.pdf.)
Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) is the CBP's electronic system through which the international trade community reports imports and exports and the government determines admissibility.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an updated notice entitled, "ACE on the Road" which lists various April-September 2006 meetings, seminars, conferences, and workshops concerning a range of Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) topics.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted a notice to its web site inviting importers, brokers and truck carriers to the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Exchange Conference on August 15-17, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its web site a notice announcing that it is implementing "Phase Four" enforcement guidelines for the Truck Trade Act's mandatory advance cargo (manifest) information requirements for truck carriers.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted a March 27, 2006 version of its guidance document entitled "Latest News and Developments," which provides information on the Pilot Bond Centralization Program and current issues, policies, and procedures for processing Activity Code 1 continuous bond applications. (See ITT's Online Archives or 03/08/06 news, 06030825, for Part VI, the final part of BP's series of summaries of CBP's February 13, 2006 version of its "Latest News and Developments" guidance document.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an "ACE Toolkit," which consists of three documents: (i) Overview of Periodic Monthly Statement; (ii) Entry Summary Accounts Revenue (ESAR) I & II Overview; and (iii) ACE Ambassador Locations. According to CBP, the toolkit provides a general overview of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and various components of key functionality.
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota (TRQ) commodity report as of April 10, 2006. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, MFTA, 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 04/10/06, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an "ACE Toolkit," which consists of three documents: (i) Overview of Periodic Monthly Statement; (ii) Entry Summary Accounts Revenue (ESAR) I & II Overview; and (iii) ACE Ambassador Locations. According to CBP, the toolkit provides a general overview of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and various components of key functionality.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an "ACE Toolkit," which consists of three documents: (i) Overview of Periodic Monthly Statement; (ii) Entry Summary Accounts Revenue (ESAR) I & II Overview; and (iii) ACE Ambassador Locations. According to CBP, the toolkit provides a general overview of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and various components of key functionality.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted the March 2006 version of its Modernization Monthly newsletter to its Web site. Articles in this issue include (partial list):