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Miscellaneous CBP Releases (March 24, 2017)CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:

• Registration is now open for the 2017 West Coast Trade Symposium (here)• FDA ACE Support Center change in hours of operation (here).

CBP CF 28s and 29s Increasingly Going to Importers of Record, Not BrokersCBP forms 28 (Request for Information) and 29 (Notice of Action) are increasingly going straight to

importers of record and no copy going to customs brokers, customs brokerage CPH Group said in an email (here). “With the CEEs coming into full force it has become more common that Customs Form (CF) 28 and CF 29 go directly to the importer of record, without the broker receiving a courtesy copy,” it said. “If you receive either a CF 28 Customs Request for Information and/or CF 29 Notice of Action, it is vital to keep

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your customs broker in the loop! It’s also important to note that the ACE Secure Data Portal allows autho-rized users to receive and respond to both of these notices.” CBP didn’t comment.

Miscellaneous CBP Releases (March 23, 2017)CBP issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:

• ACE PRODUCTION PGA Deployment March 23 to impact cargo release and entry summary processing (here).

Miscellaneous CBP Releases (March 22, 2017)CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:

• Updated ACE PGA Documentation Posted (here)• ACE CERTIFICATION Outage, Wednesday, Mar. 22, 2017 (here)• RESOLVED: Issues launching Accounts, Protest, Quota from ACE Portal (here)• User Fee Advisory Committee Meeting Documents (here).

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FDA Adds Functionality in ACE ABI for Product Code BuilderThe Food and Drug Administration recently deployed a web service that will allow importers

and customs brokers to access FDA’s product code builder database through the ACE Automated Broker Interface (ABI), CBP said in a CSMS message (here). The product code builder application program interface released March 20 will allow software developers to build a user interface for the product code builder in ABI, FDA said (here). “This does not replace the current online Product Code Builder but compliments it by providing trade a method to program existing software to query and verify FDA Prod-uct Codes,” it said.

CBP Releases Updated Document Meant to Help With Agriculture Cargo EntriesCBP released an updated version of its document meant to help importers with submissions of agri-

culture entry documents, Felicia Nailing, supervisory CBP officer at the Port of New York/Newark, said in a March 20 email. CBP’s Tactical Division, Agriculture (AG) Unit updated the document from the version released last year, she said. The updated version of the form, which is “to be completed by Broker before Submitting Hard Copy Entries,” now includes space for vessel and container information.

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Miscellaneous CBP Releases (March 21, 2017)CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:

• Update on Two EPA Rules (here)• CDRH Product Code Deletes (here)• RESOLVED: Intermittent ACE Portal and EDI processing issues March 20 (here).

Miscellaneous CBP Releases (March 20, 2017)CBP issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:

• ACE Portal Issue in Production (here).