Year: 2017

Changes announced to the Customs broker exam process!

On June 30, 2017, CBP published a final rule in the Federal Register regarding the customs broker exam process.  Previously CBP had published a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) to modernize the customs broker’s examination provisions which is now [...]

Lost your tariff number? Wondered the status of GSP? Read on…

  On June 29th CBP published CSMS message no. 17-000381 announcing the availability of Harmonized System Update (HSU) 1704, which went into effect on July 1, 2017. This USHTS update contains modifications mandated by the 484 F Committee (the Committee [...]

Hot off the press! July 8, 2017 ACE Deployment Postponed

Hold that thought…. CBP has just announced that the July 8th scheduled deployment for Entry Summary functionality to ACE has been postponed.  Though just announced under a month ago, CBP has determined that a few more things need to be [...]

Interested in partnering closely with CBP on important trade functions? CBP is looking to add new COAC Members

CBP is looking to add new members to their COAC group, or Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee.  Members of COAC work closely with CBP to make recommendations on many trade functions.  Read more articles about COAC’s work with CBP here. [...]

CustomsNow Bootcamp – ISF “how to”

Ever wonder how EASY it is to file an ISF and how EASY it is to automate the filing?  Well, now courtesy of the experts at CustomsNow, you can find out first-hand. Please join us on June 29th, 1:00 pm [...]

Where’d you go, Exchange Rates?

CBP no longer providing for exchange rate queries in ABI. In CSMS# 17-000336, June 8, 2017, CBP announced that currency exchange rates will now be found on only on their website, and that “As of July 8, 2017 the foreign [...]

Say “Goodbye” to blanket flagging in Reconciliation on July 8th, 2017

It’s the same story we posted on January 10th, 2017, only this time it’s actually going to happen. As a follow up to yesterday’s blog, CBP pulled out a bit of a surprise this week in announcing that reconciliation was finally moving [...]

ACE Post Release Deployment – Hot off the press and one month to prepare!

On June 8, 2017, CBP issued CSMS# 17-000334 – ACE Post Release Deployment, and published a Federal Register notice announcing the implementation of a series of new Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) capabilities effective July 8, 2017.  These capabilities include Collections [...]