PHILADELPHIA -- The glacial pace of developing electronically submitted export manifests is finally picking up, participants on a CBP export modernization panel said, with Tom Pagano, outbound enforcement policy branch chief, saying "we're really close."
CBP issued a list of companies offering ACE Electronic Export Manifest data processing services. The agency created the list “in response to requests from the export trade community,” CBP said in a March 26 CSMS message. “Inclusions on this list do not constitute any form of an endorsement by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as to the nature, extent, or quality of the services, which may be provided.”
American, Canadian and Mexican customs brokers and freight forwarders are urging Canada to rethink its upcoming deployment of a new customs management system in two months, saying they’re concerned the country’s current approach could significantly disrupt trade.
CBP is hoping to launch a truck electronic export manifest (EEM) portal later this year, the agency said ahead of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee’s March 6 meeting (see 2402150016 and 2402260034). CBP listed the effort as “currently under development” in a government issue paper for COAC’s Export Modernization Working Group released this week, which said a truck portal in the Automated Commercial Environment has a “tentative scheduled deployment of Fall 2024.”