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2018 Customs Broker Triennial Status Report and Fee Submission Begins Dec. 15

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Customs Brokers… don’t forget!   The submission period for the 2018 CBP Triennial Status Report and fee for all licensed Customs brokers opens Dec. 15, 2017, and runs through Feb. 28, 2018. The deadline for submitting the 2018 triennial status report and fee is Feb. 28, 2018, at 11:59 p.m. (EST). Over 14,000 active U.S. Customs […]

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Switch from ACS to ACE Means Changes to Consignee and Importer Queries

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The ability to query a consignee in ACS was shut off with the  September 15, 2017 ACE deployment, and CBP is not planning to create this same ability in the new Automated Commercial Environment (ACE).  Read on: In CBP’s legacy system, ACS, there was a way to query a consignee “as a means for filers to […]

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What exactly are CBP’s downtime procedures?

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A follow up to our earlier blog regarding the downtime experienced on ACE on November 14,  CBP has released the following formal statement.  In it, they discuss the outage, their evaluation of the current downtime procedures, and what steps they are taking to further enhance their procedures.  CBP is also working closely with Commercial Operations Advisory Council (COAC) […]

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NCBFAA Seeking Input from Members on Most Recent ACE Downtime

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The ACE outage on November 14th causes concern over current CBP downtime procedures. For a time system errors were preventing users from logging into the ACE Portal screens as well as issues with Trade electronic EDI message processing. See the original reports CMS#17-000709  , CMS#17-000710, CMS#17-000711 At 22:05 on November 14 it was reported that systems were up and […]

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CBP’s New Announcement on the Transition of Duty Statements to ACE

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On Wednesday, November 8th, CBP published a General Notice in the Federal Register announcing the transition of Daily and Preliminary Monthly Statements to ACE. “As of December 9th, 2017, ACE will be the sole CBP-authorized EDI system for generating, transmitting and updating daily and monthly statements, and ACE will no longer be a CBP authorized EDI system for such purpose”. The one […]

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Additional Information Regarding New Electronic In-bond Requirements

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As an update to our Blog article of October 24th, on last Thursday’s ACE Technical Call it was announced that CBP has been receiving many questions regarding the new automated in-bond requirements which are scheduled to go into effect on November. CBP confirmed on the call that currently they are not planning on requiring any […]

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Adjustments to MPF and HMF in 2018!

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On November 1 st, 2017, CBP published a General Notice in the Federal Register titled ‘COBRA Fees To Be Adjusted for Inflation in the fiscal year 2018 CBP Dec. 17–17’.  This announces a change to current import entry fees, which importers need to be aware of. By way of background, CBP explains that “On December […]

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CSCMP Smart Brief Highlights

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Walmart Corporations intention to recapture 300B in imported goods. A good strategy? Walmart has announced 10 policy plans to boost US manufacturing jobs and recapture as much as $300 billion in imported goods and create 1.5 million jobs in the country. The strategy has many moving pieces, including building vocational schools, creating flexible compliance guidelines […]

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