International Trade Today is providing readers with some of the top stories for May 31 - June 6 in case they were missed.

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

All live entries filed in ACE at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) should be dropped off at the Team 754 drop slot in the lobby of the CBP LAX cargo office in Los Angeles, CBP LA said in a public bulletin. As ACE cargo release “is considered a paperless program," brokers and filers will be required to submit, in a green folder, “CBP Form 7501 or 7501A with a check attached, to the Financial Team,” the bulletin said. “The invoice, packing list, and remaining supporting documents shall be uploaded onto the Document Image System (DIS). No check or cash collections of any type should be submitted to Selectivity or Import Specialist teams drop slots," CBP LA said.

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Upcoming CBP regulations are needed to address several areas left unclear by major changes to drawback in recently enacted customs reauthorization legislation, a government official and industry executives said during a June 7 panel discussion at the American Association of Exporters and Importers annual conference. CBP still needs to decide how to handle changes in classification that occur between entry and the filing of the drawback claim and changes to “lesser of” limitations on drawback. The overhaul, the biggest for drawback since 1930, presents opportunities but also poses challenges for both industry and the government, and more changes are on the way as drawback is automated in ACE, they said.

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

ARLINGTON, Va. -- A host of potential quota issues and a lack of industry testing is causing some anxiety in the trade community over the approaching July 23 deadline for filing entries and entry summaries for most remaining entry types in ACE, said industry executives speaking June 6 at the American Association of Exporters and Importers annual conference. Mirroring concerns recently voiced by CBP officials over the July 23 mandatory use date (see 1605260009), one software developer on the panel said she expects the “hard cutover” for quota to cause more problems than were seen during the recent March 31 and May 28 mandatory use dates.

The Food and Drug Administration’s PREDICT screening system is “working as intended,” resulting in higher targeting rates for unsafe food shipments in the five years since implementation, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report (here). Though some problems persist, including data collection issues, shipments with higher risk scores are being screened more often and FDA inspectors are finding more violations in connection with these shipments, according to data from the report.

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

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

CBP will soon begin sending more rejects to filers for errors on ACE entries with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data, CBP said in a message sent June 2 (here). Since NHTSA began its ACE pilot in August 2015, CBP had been rejecting only about one-third of entries that violated NHTSA business rules, and accepting sending warning messages for the other two-thirds of problematic NHTSA entries, CBP said. NHTSA has now requested that CBP accept and issue warnings for only one-third of entries in violation of its business rules, and reject the other two-thirds. As a result, CBP will begin sending rejects for types of errors that had previously been accepted with a warning message. “For example, vehicle identification number errors and incorrect tire or glazing numbers will continue to be warnings while entries that are missing the required HS-7 declarations will be rejected,” CBP said. The change will be deployed in the ACE certification testing environment on June 13, and the live production environment on June 25, CBP said.