CBP's Office of Information and Technology has posted an updated list of companies/persons offering ABI data processing services to the trade community.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has completed an analysis of import trade trends through the Mid-Year Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 including projections of trade activity through the end of FY 2010. This interim report acts as a precursor to the more extensive FY 2010 Final Report to be released later this year.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has updated its overview of benefits and information on obtaining, viewing and processing periodic monthly statements through the ACE portal.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a final determination that Mexico is the country of origin for certain dimmer and fan speed switch controls for purposes of U.S. government procurement.
CBP has posted an updated version of its TRQ/TPL "threshold to fill" list, a quick reference to monitor TRQs and TPLs that are approaching their restraint limit or have filled their in-quota (low) rate. The list is divided into two sections: those that are at least 85% filled and those that are filled.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a TSN Leadership network matrix which lists all of the TSN Committees and subcommittees with the Trade and CBP/Gov Co-Chairs and the ACE Support Team (AST) Business Leads. The matrix also includes a list of the current TSN Trade Ambassadors.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a document (Version 2.2) which outlines entry summary processing in the Automated Commercial Environment. Processing entry summaries in ACE will change the system of record for these import related transactions from a paper-based system to a true electronic system of record keeping. A change of this significance requires revised operational policies and procedures and this document will address those changes. This document will be a living document as the different entry summary types and associated downstream processing migrate from the Automated Commercial System (ACS) to ACE.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton has congratulated Mexico's law enforcement community for their recent award presented by the World Customs Organization for seizing the most counterfeit intellectual property (IP) products this year. "With this honor, Mexico has established itself at the forefront of the international struggle to combat this very serious problem" said Morton.
CBP has issued a CSMS message announcing that it has posted the Periodic Monthly Statement User Guide under “ACE Training and Reference Guides.” The guide provides an overview of benefits and information on obtaining, viewing and processing periodic monthly statements through the ACE portal.