ACE Reporting: Using ACE data to benefit your company
A Practical Training on CBP’s Automated Commercial Environment Web Portal

Transitioning to ACE: Mandatory ACE Entry and Entry Summary Filing Fast Approaching [click here] for information and deadlines from CBP

ACE Update 8/31/2013: ACE mandatory filing may be delayed, but your company should not delay in mastering the information and functionality that is waiting for you in ACE right now!

You may have to wait an extra four months for ACE filing to be mandatory, but you do not have to wait to learn how to leverage the power of the ACE portal to save you time and money. CONECT is holding an all-day seminar to prepare your company by learning how to harness the power of your entry data or your client’s entry data by using the ACE portal’s powerful dataset to let you identify efficiencies, opportunities and issues. Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg’s Mark Tallo is presenting this hands-on training session for importers and brokers to help you understand the ACE reporting tool and how to use ACE reports to retrieve, manipulate and decipher this extensive data warehouse.

This session will show how simple modifications to standard reports will allow you to: 

• Improve Efficiency: Schedule weekly or monthly emails to notify you of requests for information, liquidations and other activity on your imports.
• Identify Cost Savings: Find duty savings opportunities using strategies like First Sale, Foreign Trade Zones, Drawback and other duty deferral programs.
• Identify Issues: Spot unusual information before Customs starts looking. Learn to identify unauthorized brokers, unusual import data & incorrect information.
  

This full day hands-on training session for brokers and importers will also include the following topics:

• ACE data overview: review of available reports & data elements, including the ACE cargo release, entry summary and other available data elements.
• Using reports effectively: running and modifying reports to include information important to your company, finding the information you’re looking for quickly and exporting reports to Excel for further manipulation and analysis.
• Organizing your ACE account: setting your ACE account up to mirror your company’s organizational structure and ensuring your ACE account includes all of your company’s imports, subsidiaries, sister and parent companies.
• Streamlining uploads: learning how to upload NAFTA Certificates of Origin, Manufacturer’s Affidavits, AD/CVD Non-Reimbursement Statements and other documents only once and associating them with multiple import entries.
• Streamlining responses: responding to Requests for Information and Notices of Action online and following the status as Customs acts on these documents.
• Effective monitoring:
  - using the Periodic Monthly Statement to track your duty payments made.
  - subscribing to the Importer Security Filing reports to comply with Customs’ enforcement of the ISF requirement.
• Broker module: managing your employee lists, uploading data on new hires and terminated employees, responding to document requests and uploading and emailing documents to Customs.

 
Mark Tallo, Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A.

Mark Tallo is a Member with Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A. in Washington, D.C. His practice areas include customs, import and export compliance and international anti-corruption measures such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Mark currently focuses his practice on exploring ways that his clients can streamline their compliance processes and take full advantage of duty savings opportunities by structuring transactions to reduce landed costs. This includes use of First Sale Valuation and various U.S. preference programs (Generalized System of Preferences as well as bilateral and regional free trade agreements). Mark received his law degree from The George Washington University Law School.

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About Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A. (Sponsor of this Seminar)

Leading international trade law firm Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A. and global trade compliance management company Sandler & Travis Trade Advisory Services, Inc. together form the largest international trade services provider in the world. The firms consist of over 750 global trade professionals working out of offices spanning North America, South America, Asia and Europe and focus exclusively on matters concerning the movement of goods, services and intellectual property from one country to another, regardless of point of export or import.

STR & STTAS provide a full range of import and export legal and consulting services, as well as managed services that include complete Global Trade Compliance Management, allowing multinational companies to rest assured that declarations made to government authorities in connection with the cross-border shipments of goods are accurate and verifiable in more than 70 countries worldwide.

Member Log in is REQUIRED to see and receive the discounted member rate.  Username will be your work email, if you do not remember your password, please choose "forgot password".

This event has been approved by NCBFAA for 6.5 CCS  continuing education credits