U.S. Customs and Border Protection previously posted to its Web site a notice announcing the phased enforcement of mandatory Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes at all land border ports in New Hampshire and Vermont as well as the remaining land border ports in North Dakota - St. John, Fortuna, Ambrose, Carbury, Noonan, Dunseith, Sherwood, Antler, Northgate, Westhope, and Portal1, beginning July 12, 2007.
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.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources, Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1 was deployed for Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) accounts on Sunday, September 9, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a notice which announces the phased enforcement of mandatory Automated Commercial Environment electronic manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes at all land border ports in Maine and Minnesota beginning October 16, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that it plans to deploy Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1 for Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) accounts on Sunday, September 9, 2007.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of September 4, 2007. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA 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 09/04/07, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
The Department of Homeland Security has issued several recent notices related to the Automated Targeting System (ATS).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site its report to Congress on the Automated Commercial Environment for the second quarter of fiscal year (FY) 2007 (i.e., January 1, 2007 - March 31, 2007).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted to its Web site a frequently asked question document regarding Automated Commercial Environment Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1.
In July 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued an ABI administrative message reminding Automated Commercial Environment portal users about changes that they must make to their Internet Explorer web browser settings by September 14, 2007 in order to continue to access the ACE portal.
The following are documents which CBP updates frequently (weekly, monthly, etc.):