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NCBFAA, AAEI Call for Partial Delay of Feb. 28 ACE Deadline
February 5, 2016 |Top News

CBP should adopt a “soft mandated” approach to its Feb. 28 Automated Commercial Environment deadline for cargo release entry types 01, 03 and 11, keeping the Automated Commercial System online as a fallback, and delay the deadline for both cargo release and entry summary for all other entry types until 90 days after programming has been finalized, said the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America in a letter to agency officials dated Feb. 2 (here).

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), Lacey Act
More Changes Coming to FDA's ACE Data Requirements, Say Agency Officials
February 4, 2016 by Brian Feito|Top News

More changes are on the way for the Food and Drug Administration’s supplemental guide for filing in the Automated Commercial Environment, but the changes are meant to ease, not add to the burden on industry, said Sandra Abbott, director of FDA’s Division of Compliance Systems, during a webinar hosted by the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America on Feb. 3. The basic data elements that will become mandatory Feb. 28 are set, but FDA still needs to fix bugs that are causing hiccups for filers, she said.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
NMFS Proposes New ACE Filing, Recordkeeping Requirements for High-Risk Seafood Imports
February 4, 2016 |Top News

The National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing new filing requirements at time of entry for imports of certain species of seafood the agency has deemed high-risk (here). Conceived as part of an administration-wide strategy to combat illegal, unreported and unregistered (IUU) fishing and seafood fraud (see 1503160016), filers would have to submit through the Automated Commercial Environment certain data elements and electronic documents in order to improve traceability of imports of the high-risk species. The importer of record would also have to maintain records on the chain of custody of their seafood imports, and obtain an International Fisheries Trade Permit for the high-risk species. Comments on the proposal are due April 5.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
FDA Announces New DUNS Number Look-Up Tool for Filing in ACE
February 2, 2016 |FDA

The Food and Drug Administration recently launched a new International Trade Data System/Data Universal Number System (DUNS) Portal (here), it said in a recent update to its ACE webpage (here). The portal, developed with Dun & Bradstreet, allows the trade community to look up, verify, update and request new DUNS numbers for use in Automated Commercial Environment transactions. ACE gives importers and brokers the new option to uniquely identify firm information by providing a DUNS number, said FDA. The agency also posted a quick user guide (here) and step-by-step instruction guide (here) for the new portal.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
CBP Considering Ways to Bring Paper-Based USVI Ports into ACE
February 2, 2016 |Customs

CBP is assessing its options for incorporating the "U.S. Virgin Islands into the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) to expedite the importation process," the agency said in a press release (here). Stephen Hilsen, lead executive for the Single Window initiative at CBP, recently visited USVI "to gather information about the current cargo clearance process," in which all custom entries are made by Customs Business Service companies and/or importers in person, the agency said. "The current process lacks electronic communication from the filers to CBP, hence, a heavy paper environment is created in all USVI ports of entry," said CBP. Federal statutes require CBP to collect customs duties on behalf of the USVI, which operates under the Danish Public Law 64, a law that has been in effect since Denmark sold the islands to the U.S. in 1917, said CBP.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)