Border requirements

Jan. 1, 2007
TRUCKS entering the United TRUCKS entering the United States through certain ports of entry must file advance electronic cargo manifest information to the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) through a CBP-approved electronic data interchange, beginning January 25, 2007

TRUCKS entering the United States through certain ports of entry must file advance electronic cargo manifest information to the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) through a CBP-approved electronic data interchange, beginning January 25, 2007, said Steven Graham of the (Automated Commercial Environment) ACE program.

ACE is the new commercial processing system designed to consolidate and automate border processing, Graham said at the Southern Bulk Carriers Conference November 9 in Houston, Texas.

CBP gave notice of its intent to designate the ACE Truck Manifest System and the approved EDI format for the required transmission of advanced electronic truck cargo information for all trucks entering the United States through ports of entry in the states of Arizona and Washington, and in parts of North Dakota with a deadline for January 27, 2007. By June 2007, all land border crossings will be ACE ports and by the end of 2007, eManifest will be mandatory at all land border ports.

CBP expects to implement sequentially this data requirement at remaining ports of entry in a series of state-cluster deployments. The five clusters are: (1) Michigan, Texas, California, New Mexico, and New York. (2)Vermont and Alaska. (3) Maine, Idaho, and Montana. (4) the remaining ports of entry in North Dakota. (5) Minnesota.

Graham advised carriers to communicate with their customs brokers to be sure the filings are occurring correctly. He also said that fleet officials should contact their software providers to determine if they have an application that is compatible to the ACE program, or they can contact providers on the CBP Web site at customs.gov.

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