BROKERS URGED TO ATTEND NCBFAA-SPONSORED TSN CONFERENCE

BROKERS URGED TO ATTEND NCBFAA-SPONSORED TSN CONFERENCE    The National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America is urging brokers to attend a two-day association-sponsored Trade Support Network conference in Washington, Jan. 18-19.
   The TSN was created by U.S. Customs in 1994 to gain industry input into the development of the agency’s future computer system, the Automated Commercial Environment.
   About 120 industry executives, from a broad range of industry interests, such as brokers, importers, carriers, sureties and trade associations, attend the TSN meetings to discuss and review various areas of the new system that will affect trade.
   The NCBFAA has members involved in TSN. The group has learned that there changes coming in ACE which “profoundly” affect the broker industry in the near future.
   The NCBFAA said its TSN conference will give its broker members “time not only hear from real people developing the diverse aspects of ACE but also to identify the effects of ACE so they can be taken into consideration when addressing issues and positions.”