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Article: Customs proposal could ease importers' burden.(US Customs Service's Entry Revision Project)(Statistical Data Included)
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- Logistics Management & Distribution Report
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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As long as there has been a U.S. Customs Service, goods have been cleared for entry into commerce in the same way: one shipment, one entry. The Customs Service has always treated each shipment-and any monetary activity associated with it-as a separate and discrete transaction.
That can be very cumbersome-something like a business's maintaining a separate bank account for each purchase it makes. As the volume of trade continues to grow, the "one shipment, one entry" approach is likely to impose serious strain on the agency's outdated information processing program-the Automated Commercial System (ACS). Import volumes, already high, are growing fast. In 1999, U.S. ...