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Tesla Reveals Groundbreaking Self-Driving Electric Semi Trucks

In an evening meeting on November 16, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced a smack-down to gasoline powered cars and trucks by announcing the prototype of their self-driving truck. This innovative design by the company that pioneered electric cars promises more [...]

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

What exactly are CBP’s downtime procedures?

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 [...]

NCBFAA Seeking Input from Members on Most Recent ACE Downtime

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Additional Information Regarding New Electronic In-bond Requirements

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 [...]

Adjustments to MPF and HMF in 2018!

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 [...]