GHY Tradelines

(STR Trade Report)

Somewhat surprisingly, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that ABI functionality to electronically transmit in-bonds for air cargo (QX/WX) will be deployed to production on Nov. 5. This functionality will allow air cargo transported in-bond from the port of arrival to a port of destination (e.g., for entry into a bonded warehouse or foreign-trade zone) to move seamlessly and without delay.

CBP had abandoned a previous attempt to deploy this functionality due to technical problems and officials had said afterward that it was not a priority, even though CBP’s proposed in-bond regulations would require electronic reporting for all in-bonds. In the meantime importers moving air cargo in-bond have had to complete and submit a paper form to CBP, where approval can be delayed. Under QX/WX, however, electronic approval from CBP will take only a matter of minutes.

CBP states that as of Nov. 5 ABI in-bond requests may only be transmitted for air waybills that have been transmitted and accepted in the Air Automated Manifest System. In addition, the following points should be kept in mind.

- air in-bonds must be requested at the simple and house bill levels

- when applicable, previous in-bond numbers must be transmitted with subsequent in-bond requests

- previous in-bonds must be arrived before a subsequent in-bond request is transmitted

- partial piece counts are not permitted with QX (either space fill or zero fill)

- in-bond requests for split air waybills must match the arrival information transmitted by the air carrier for each part

- in-bond requests for split air waybills must have a unique in-bond control number for each part arrival
 

(Journal of Commerce)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has transferred all affected trade parties to the Automated Commercial Environment e-Manifest: Rail and Sea.

ACE now operates as the only CBP-approved electronic data interchange through which rail and sea manifests may be transmitted to the agency.

The transition, which included ocean carriers, rail carriers and Automated Broker Interface software developers, was completed last week, before the Sept. 29 deadline.
 

(CBP)

Harmonized System Update (HSU) 1203 was created on March 15, 2012 and contains 116,214 ABI records and 23,379 harmonized tariff records.

Modifications include those mandated by the U.S. Korea Free Trade Agreement, effective March 15, 2012. These changes can be found on the United States International Trade Commission’s, USITC website.

(The wrong link was posted in the original message. I apologize. The correct link is listed above)

Adjustments required by the authentication of the 2012 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) are included.

The modified records are currently available to all ABI participants and can be retrieved electronically via the procedures indicated in the CATAIR. For further information about this process, please contact your client representative. For all other questions regarding this message, please contact Jennifer Keeling via email at Jennifer.Keeling@dhs.gov.
 

(CBP)

Harmonized System Update (HSU) 1202 was created on March 15, 2012 and contains 11,6214 ABI records and 23,379 harmonized tariff records.

Modifications include those mandated by the U.S. Korea Free Trade Agreement, effective March 15, 2012. These changes can be found on the United States International Trade Commission’s website here.

Adjustments required by the authentication of the 2012 Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) are included.

The modified records are currently available to all ABI participants and can be retrieved electronically via the procedures indicated in the CATAIR. For further information about this process, please contact your client representative. For all other questions regarding this message, please contact Jennifer Keeling via email at Jennifer.Keeling@dhs.gov.
 

(World Trade Interactive)

In a Dec. 15 message, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a blanket authorization for immediate delivery procedures for merchandise to be released on or after Dec. 15 and until Dec. 31. This authorization is offered to filers who may want to take advantage of interim Harmonized Tariff Schedule changes that take effect on or after Jan. 1, 2012.

This blanket authorization does not apply to absolute quota merchandise and merchandise moved under an immediate transportation entry. Tariff-rate quota merchandise previously authorized for ID release may still be released under ID, but the entry summary must be presented within 10 working days after release or within the quota period, whichever expires first.

In those instances where the paper CF 3461/CF 3461 (ALT) is used as the entry document and importers wish to elect ID, a line must be drawn through the word “entry” on the document. Automated Broker Interface entry transmissions, including the “paperless” provisional message, will establish the desired entry date by using the estimated entry date in the summary (EI) transmission. This will identify the change from entry to ID and allow filers to elect a date of entry in order to take advantage of duty rate changes or special programs. Under ID procedures, the entry/entry summary must be filed within 10 working days after release.

CBP stresses that no grace period will be granted for the purpose of timely filing ID entry summaries under this one-time allowance.
 

(World Trade Interactive)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced recently that it expects to fully transition rail and sea manifests from the Automated Commercial System to the Automated Commercial Environment by late 2012.

CBP began conducting a pilot test of rail and sea manifests in ACE on Nov. 28. According to CBP, this test includes the filing of all rail and sea manifests and relevant Automated Broker Interface applications in ACE for parties who have completed trade testing, the ability of customs brokers to create rail entry banks, conveyance data loaded and available for carriers, an in-bond authorization edit, and multi-modal manifest report data in ACE for importer, broker and carrier accounts. Read more here.
 

(World Trade Interactive)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a clarification regarding the discontinuation of paper courtesy notices of liquidation as of Sept. 17.

According to CBP, the Sept. 17 paper courtesy notice includes liquidations through Sept. 30. As such, there will be no printed paper courtesy notices for entry summaries filed via the Automated Broker Interface with a liquidation date of Sept. 30 or later. For entry summaries filed electronically via ABI, CBP will send electronic courtesy notices via ABI to the entry summary filers. For entry summaries not filed through ABI, CBP will continue to mail paper courtesy notices of liquidation to the importers of record.

In addition, CBP deployed the new Courtesy Notice of Liquidation Report via the Automated Commercial Environment portal on Sept. 24. This report includes liquidation information for ACE entry summary types 01 (consumption) and 03 (antidumping/countervailing duty) as well as all Automated Commercial System entry types except 11 (informal) and 12 (informal quota). CBP stresses that this report is not the official notice of liquidation, has no legal effect and does not trigger the protest filing period. Also, CBP is asking users to refrain from running this report until it issues further notification that the data load is complete.
 

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