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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 Releases Updated Business Rules Document for ACE Entry Summary
July 9, 2018 |Customs

CBP updated its ACE Entry Summary business rules and processes document with changes to the quota section and other parts of the document. "Numerous significant revisions have been made to the quota section of this document and language explaining how absolute quota works in ACE has been added to the section," CBP said. Other revisions were made to the sections on temporary importation bonds, reconciliation, warehouse entries and withdrawals, and collections, according to the change log.

CBP Adds HTS Code Flags for NMFS
July 9, 2018 |Customs

CBP will flag two more Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes in ACE at the request of the National Marine Fisheries Service, CBP said in a CSMS message. The codes -- 0304.49.0190 (Fish fillets and other fish meat (whether or not minced), fresh, chilled or frozen (90 = Other)) and 0304.87.0000 (Tunas, non-specific fillet frozen (of the genus Thunnus), skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito (Euthynnus or Katsuwonus pelamis)) -- will be flagged as NM5, it said. That flag means that specific Highly Migratory Species information may be required by NMFS. "Because these codes are 'general' in their description, a disclaimer will be allowed for the HMS program for the NM5 flag if the codes are being used for product that is not fresh Bluefin tuna (or is not other product that is covered the NMFS HMS program, primarily Bluefin tuna or swordfish)," CBP said.

ICE Makes Huge Seizure of Counterfeit Goods in Laredo
July 9, 2018 |Customs

Special agents in ICE's Homeland Security Investigations seized 181,000 counterfeit items, estimated to be worth $42.9 million if the products were real, as part of an operation in Laredo, Texas, the agency said in a news release. In June, the ICE agents "conducted surveillance over a three-day period and observed boxes containing suspected counterfeit merchandise being moved," it said. "During the enforcement action, HSI discovered that all shipping labels on all the boxes depicted fictitious delivery addresses in Laredo. HSI confirmed the boxes contained counterfeit merchandise and detained the boxes."

CBP Reminds Importers to Use Third-Country AD/CVD Case Numbers for Some Entries
July 5, 2018 |Customs

Some importers of merchandise subject to antidumping and countervailing duties may need to use special case numbers on entry documentation if their goods were processed in a third country prior to importation, CBP said in a CSMS message. Though AD/CV duty orders generally covered goods produced in a given country, sometimes such goods may have undergone processes in a third country that mean the third country is actually the country of origin on CBP entry documentation, even though the good itself may remain subject to the AD/CV duty order. AD/CVD case numbers must match the country of origin on entry summaries, so for these situations Commerce creates new case numbers that importers can use to report such entries properly.