Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:​

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:​

CBP is trying to get a handle on a recent boom in Type 86 entries, said Jim Swanson of the Office of Cargo Security and Controls in the CBP Office of Field Operations. The dramatic increase in entries is causing slowdowns in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and threatens to overwhelm the agency's ability to control the flow, he said. Swanson spoke on a May 8 conference call about the bottlenecking entries. With more than 30 million entries and nearing 40 million, “I believe Type 86 has now surpassed the number of formal entries filed in previous years” or is “awful close to it,” he said.

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:​

The Government Accountability Office and the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General each released a report on Dec. 17 that noted various issues within CBP's drawback program. The GAO's report suggested that CBP work to flag excessive export submissions and “establish a reliable system of record for proof of export,” among other things. The DHS IG report found that CBP “lacked appropriate documentation retention periods to ensure importers and claimants maintained support for drawback transactions” and didn't scrutinize prior drawback claims enough for claimants during 2011 to 2018.

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:​

CBP issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:​

The Treasury Department published its fall 2019 regulatory agenda for CBP. The agenda includes a new rulemaking that would amend CBP's regulations to get rid of the “onerous and inefficient paper-based bond application and approval processes," it said. The agency will try to issue a proposed rulemaking rule by March next year, it said. "Moving forward, the proposed amendments would implement the successful National Customs Automation Program (NCAP) test for electronic bonds ('eBonds')," it said. "The proposed amendments would require all bonds to be filed by the sureties using an electronic data interchange (EDI) or e-mail."

The U.S. will soon start discussions with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations about a possible connection between ASEAN's customs filing platform with the U.S. platform, the State Department said in a Nov. 3 fact sheet about "Expanding the Enduring Partnership" with ASEAN. "The United States and the ASEAN Secretariat announced the opening of negotiations to link the ASEAN 'Single Window' with the U.S. Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) System, which governs all trade in goods entering the United States," State said. "Making this link will further facilitate $272 billion in two-way trade in goods between the United States and ASEAN."

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:​