Truck manifest goes live on southern border

Truck manifest goes live on southern border       U.S. Customs and Border Protection said a trucking company filed the first electronic manifest on the southern border earlier this month. The agency began rolling out the advance filing capability to ports on the northern border earlier this year.
   The e-manifest is part of the Automated Commercial Environment project to automate customs functions and information collection. CBP eventually plans to mandate electronic manifest filing to provide analysts an advance look at cargo shipments entering the country for security purposes and to speed up processing at the border.
   More than 1,000 electronic manifests have been filed in the nine months since the effort began. Fewer than 40 motor carriers have systems and training to transmit manifests to CBP. Although few transactions have been filed in advance, once CBP officers punch in the truck’s identification information they are able to use the new ACE features to view multiple release documents and shave time from the clearance process.