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The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) is the CBP's electronic system through which the international trade community reports imports and exports and the government determines admissibility.

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CBP Updates ACE Guide With Info on TSCA Importer Certs for Composite Wood Beginning March 22
February 22, 2019 |Customs

CBP updated its ACE Environmental Protection Agency supplemental guidelines with information on Toxic Substances Control Act importer certifications required under composite wood formaldehyde standards beginning March 22, it said in a CSMS message. “The changes are on pages 157-159, and address sample message sets, allowable disclaim codes, and the TSCA certification that should be filed for these commodities,” CBP said. “There are approximately 450 additional HTS codes for composite wood products that will be flagged with an EP7 (TSCA certification 'may be required' to be filed) code. This flagging will begin in the Certification (CERT) environment no earlier than February 22, 2019. The flagging will begin in Production (PROD) starting March 22, 2019,” CBP said. Under regulations issued by the EPA in 2016 (see 1607280021), importers of composite wood products, including composite wood products that are “articles" under CBP's TSCA regulations, have to file certifications at entry that the goods comply with TSCA regulations, beginning March 22.

CBP to Deploy Updated Form 5106 on March 16
February 20, 2019 |Customs

CBP will deploy its updated Form 5106 (Create/Update Importer Identity Form) on March 16, CBP said in a Feb. 20 notice. "The legacy Importer Create/Update ABI application (TI) will be disabled at 8:00 pm on Friday, March 15, 2019," CBP said. "Any submissions of the TI after that time will be rejected. During the outage window, the new ACE Importer Create/Update functionality for Trade and CBP users will be deployed to ACE production. Legacy importer accounts will be converted to new ACE as part of the deployment of the 5106 in new ACE. Any new ACE Importer Create/Update submissions (TP) submitted to ACE prior to completion of the deployment will be held in queue and processed once the entire deployment is completed."

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ACE, Imaging Equipment for Vehicle Traffic, Mail Funded in Omnibus Bill
February 20, 2019 by Mara Lee|Top News

The act that funds the Department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year provides more than half a billion dollars for more non-intrusive imaging equipment in in-bound lanes at the Mexican border, as well as $6 million for equipment for outbound traffic. It's the single biggest-ticket item that affects trade shipments, but there are many others: $10 million for ACE enhancement that will include post-core development and collections, and $2 million for the Office of Trade for targeting.

AAEI Developing 'Mod Act 2' Legislative Proposal
February 14, 2019 by Tim Warren|Top News

The American Association of Exporters and Importers is working on proposed legislation that is meant to improve and allow for a more modern customs process, the group said in comments on CBP's request for input on creating a new customs framework (see 1812200003). The proposal, which the AAEI refers to as "Mod Act 2," has been under development for more than a year. The legislation "seeks to take the process of accounting for imported goods and the collection of Customs duties thereon in a new and more modern direction," the trade group said.