U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued its weekly quota commodity report as of June 20, 2005. This report includes tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on various products such as beef, tuna, sugar, dairy products, peanuts, cotton, cocoa powder, tobacco, certain JFTA, NAFTA, SFTA, UAFTA and UCFTA TRQs, etc. This report also includes the AGOA, ATPDEA, CBTPA, NAFTA, SFTA, and UCFTA tariff preference levels (TPLs) for qualifying apparel and/or other textile articles, the TRQs on worsted wool fabrics, etc. (CBP's weekly quota commodity report, dated 06/20/05, available at http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/import/textiles_and_quotas/commodity/)
Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
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.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a document entitled, Answers to Question Cards Submitted at CBP Trade Symposium 2004.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) presentation from the May 2005 Annual American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI) conference.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an update on the International Trade Data System (ITDS) which appears to have been prepared for the May 5, 2005 meeting of the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection and Related Functions (COAC).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) Office of Information and Technology has posted an updated notice to its Web site, dated 06/08/05, of companies/persons offering Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Electronic Truck Manifest data processing services to the trade community. The June 8, 2005 list includes the name, address, and contact information for the following data processing services:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site a document entitled, Answers to Question Cards Submitted at CBP Trade Symposium 2004.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site the May 2005 issue of its U.S. Customs and Border Protection Modernization newsletter which discusses, among other things, the continuing deployment of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Release 4 (Truck Manifest).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP's) Office of Information and Technology has posted an updated notice to its Web site, dated May 31, 2005, of companies/persons offering Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Electronic Truck Manifest data processing services to the trade community.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a general notice which announces a modification to the deployment schedule for the National Customs Automation Program (NCAP) test concerning the transmission of automated truck manifest data.
CBP has posted the following to its Web site: