U.S. House panel approves Customs cash

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House Treasury and Postal Subcommittee recently approved the long-awaited appropriations bill that includes funding for the U.S. Customs Service’s Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), a state-of-the-art computer system for processing commercial shipments into the U.S.

The subcommittee approved an additional $161 million in expenditures in fiscal 2001 for the Customs automation program (all figures U.S.). That is on top of $233.4 million already earmarked for this category. The $233.4 million budget for Customs automated programs will be divided with $105 million going for ACE development and $123 million for maintenance of the existing Automated Commercial System (ACS).

The 17-year-old ACS has been plagued with problems in recent years and has even suffered some total system failures that resulted in a processing nightmare at border crossing points. ACE will eventually replace ACS. n

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