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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 Posts New Version of Customs Broker Guidance
September 11, 2023 |Customs

CBP posted a new “Version 2.0” of its Customs Broker Guidance for the Trade Community on Sept. 8, adding new information on qualifying licensed individual brokers, recordkeeping requirements for broker separation from a client, filer code suspensions and CBP standards for responsible supervision and control, among other things.

Topics:Entry Type 86 , Customs duty, Court of International Trade, Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), Drawback, CBP CROSS Rulings, Forced Labor
Rulemaking on Type 86 Data Highest Priority at CBP
September 11, 2023 by Mara Lee|Top News

The executive at CBP responsible for the two pilot programs collecting data for Section 321 and Entry Type 86 told an audience of brokers that issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking on required data submissions for de minimis shipments is "of the highest priority at CBP right now." He repeated for emphasis, "The highest priority. From the commissioner down, it has been: 'When are we going to get the NPRM?'"

Topics:Entry Type 86 , Forced Labor
Updated ACE Agency Tariff Code AQX Now Available for APHIS
September 8, 2023 by Noah Garfinkel|Customs

Updated ACE Agency Tariff Code AQX is now available for the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, CBP said in a CSMS message Sept. 8. The flag is available in the certification environment. Starting Sept. 11, the AQX code will begin to be assigned to HTS codes in the production environment, the message said. The flag for this entry will be given a "warning" severity, meaning that you can still file a new entry even if there is no disclaim code related to the flag. Disclaim codes A and B will be usable with the AQX flag, the message said. Filers who submit an entry with HTS flagged AQX without APHIS data or a disclaim will receive the following message: PU2 – DATA MSNG ON HTS – NO ACTN RQD AQX. Questions about the APHIS Core Message Set filing can be sent to ace.itds@usda.gov or addressed by the APHIS help desk at 1-833-481-2102 or the APHIS website.

Topics:Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
Cynthia Allen Leaves FedEx Logistics
September 7, 2023 |Trade People

Cynthia Allen left FedEx Logistics on Sept. 7, and will be “taking some time off with family and friends to lazily contemplate my next career move,” she said in a post on LinkedIn. Allen, a former member of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) who had previously led CBP’s ACE Business Office, was vice president of regulatory affairs and compliance at the company.