CBP has issued the June 2008 ACE Trade Account Owner monthly update as an attachment to an ACE Portal Accounts CSMS message. The update covers the following topics: the introduction of ACE "ad hoc" reporting capabilities, new contact information for the technology support center, ACE Account Revenue report enhancements, the posting of the "draft" M1 version of the CAMIR (Amendment 11) and X12 transaction sets, and new features that will be available in ACE with the deployment of ACE A2.1/M1 Ocean and Rail e-Manifest. (June 2008 TAO update available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/docs/17122_1004847298/June_2008_TAO_V4.pdf.)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a General Notice announcing a change to the portal activity portion of the Terms and Conditions that must be followed for access to the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Secure Data Portal (ACE Portal).
On June 23, 2008, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported S. 3181, the fiscal year 2009 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, affecting U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
CBP has posted an updated version of its "ACE on the Road" event schedule, which includes the following events:
The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General has issued its report on U.S. Customs and Border Protection's security controls over the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that on July 1, 2008 the following 12 filer and importer compliance ACE reports had been restored to all trade users (fiscal and calendar are each separate reports):
In May 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials attending the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC) announced that CBP would carry over into the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) 24 edits which the Trade Support Network had asked CBP to keep.
CBP has issued its weekly tariff rate quota and tariff preference level commodity report as of June 30, 2008. This report includes TRQs on various products such as beef, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa products, tobacco, certain BFTA, DR-CAFTA, Israel FTA, JFTA, MFTA, SFTA, UAFTA (AFTA) and UCFTA (Chile FTA) non-textile TRQs, etc. Each report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, BFTA, DR-CAFTA, CBTPA, Haitian HOPE, MFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA TPLs and TRQs for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly TRQ/TPL commodity report available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/trade/trade_programs/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
In June 24, 2008 written testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, Treasury Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax, Trade, and Tariff Policy Skud discussed the International Trade Data System (ITDS), among other things.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted the follow Automated Commercial Environment documents: