CBP is requesting comments by March 20 on an existing information collection for applications to use the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). CBP proposes (here) to extend the expiration date of this information collection with a change to the burden hours.
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The Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) presented a litany of recommendations related to export licensing, at the committee’s Feb. 11 meeting in San Francisco. Many of the recommendations were related to alignment of license requirements and enforcement across ports and agencies. Highlights of the recommendations from COAC are as follows:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP needs to ensure the messages Partner Government Agencies send through the Automated Commercial Environment are easy for the trade community to understand by providing adequate detail on which agency is involved and standardizing PGA messaging, said the CBP Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations’ 1 U.S. Government at the Border (1USG) subcommittee in recommendations presented to the agency at the Feb. 11 COAC meeting in San Francisco.
The transition of cargo release to the Automated Commercial Environment in November is going to be marked by a transition period that will require some heavy lifting from the trade community, said CBP officials at a National Association Foreign-Trade Zones (NAFTZ) seminar on Feb. 10. While CBP hopes to get everyone to the point where they can exchange electronic messages, it remains to be decided how automation will work at the operational level for entities like terminal operators, truck drivers, and container freight stations that currently stamp paper, said James Swanson, CBP director-cargo security and controls.
CBP posted its draft agenda and other documents (here) for the upcoming Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection (COAC) meeting on Feb. 11, which include extensive recommendations on antidumping and countervailing duty outreach and the automation of export licensing. The draft agenda is (here). A list of draft recommendations is (here).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
CBP announced it is testing a new “combined filing” feature in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Cargo Release pilot, in a notice (here). The new feature will allow eligible importers and brokers to file both entry and Importer Security Filing (ISF) data in a combined transmission to CBP, it said. Testing of combined filing is set to begin Feb. 10, and will run until Nov. 1, 2015, when the ACE Cargo Release pilot is scheduled to end.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues: