On July 9, 2009, the Senate passed its own version of H.R. 2892, the fiscal year (FY) 2010 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, etc.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that ABI air in-bond functionality (application identifier QX/WX) will be available for testing in the Automated Commercial System on July 13, 2009. Another CSMS message will be issued when the functionality is available in ACS Production.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that the Customs Automated Forms Entry System (CAFES) application will be retired from the CBP automated operations environment when ACE M1 (e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail), goes into production during fiscal year 2010.
CBP has posted an updated version of its "ACE on the Road" event schedule, which includes the following event:
On June 24, 2009, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2892, the fiscal year (FY) 2010 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, etc.
CBP has issued a CSMS message announcing recent changes to the 2009 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HS Update No. 0902). This update contains 25,777 ABI records and 4,334 harmonized records. Changes include the following:
The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES), H.R. 2454 that was passed in the House on June 26, 2009 by a vote of 219 to 212, includes changes from the prior version with regards to international trade-related sections, among others.
CBP has posted the following ACE documents:
On June 26, 2009, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) by a vote of 219 to 212.
"Daily Update on Capitol Hill Trade Actions" is a regular feature of International Trade Today. The following are brief summaries of recent Capitol Hill actions.