The fiscal year 2010 report to Congress on the International Trade Data System has is now posted to the ITDS website. This report includes information on the 1) status of ITDS implementation; 2) extent of participation in ITDS by other Federal agencies; 3) remaining barriers to any agencies participation; 4) consistency with the World Customs Organization; 5) recommendations for technological and other improvements to the ITDS; and 6) status of development, implementation and management of ACE within CBP.

U.S. Customs and Border protection has posted a document providing a February 2011 update on the status of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) program, including the use of document imaging for the Food and Drug Administration, a final CATAIR PGA message set, and web services to send data to PGA data systems.

CBP has issued a CSMS message stating that as part of the ACE production deployment on February 26, 2011, the following two issues impacting the trade community have now been resolved:

Broker Power is providing readers with some of the top stories for February 22-25, 2011 in case they were missed last week.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a news release and fact sheet on its progress in securing U.S. borders in FY 2010, such as establishing an import safety targeting center, increased seizures for IPR and safety violations, more timely AD/CV liquidations, etc.

During a recent interview with Broker Power, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials provided an update on ACE, including Post Summary Correction functionality, the deployment of M1, the 24 high priority ACE entry summary edits, cargo release, the document imaging system, etc.

Broker Power is providing readers with some of the top stories for February 14-18, 2011 in case they were missed last week.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that it has posted revised ACE ABI CATAIR chapters and documents for the next Entry Summary, Accounts and Revenue (ESAR) release, which is scheduled for spring 2011, and contains Post Summary Correction (PSC) and related functionality.

CBP has posted a presentation providing a general overview of e-Manifest: Truck filing including laws and regulations, filing options, shipment release types and information on the Trade Act enforcement plan and exceptions, in-bond shipments and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).