Category: General

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 [...]

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 [...]

CSCMP Smart Brief Highlights

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 [...]

SoCal CSCMP Women and Men Leaders in Supply Chain Program

Don’t Miss the November 15 event from 5-8 PM at the Grand Conference Center in Long Beach, CA. Explorations in career strategies for both Women and Men, touching on education, mentorship, workplace bias, and how to sustain an upward personal [...]

ITT ACE Weekly News Brief

The International Trade Today’s ACE Weekly New Brief has been published, and here’s what we are paying attention to: COAC Meeting date and agenda has been announced in Washington DC on November 14. Attend in person by registering here. If you [...]

Advance Screening for Air Freight to Continue

On July 24th, U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) published a Federal Register notice announcing an extension of the Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS) pilot program which was due to expire on July 26, 2017. The program has been extended [...]

ICPA Conference Registration Opens- Grab your Wingman and get to San Diego

The ICPA serves the needs of international trade compliance professionals, and Customs Now is proud to be a member.  The upcoming annual conference is the must-attend event for all import and export professionals, and this year it’s right in our [...]

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