NOTICE - Improved Processing of Imports of Goods Filed via the Automated Commercial Environment

With the release of August 2015 statistics on October 6, 2015, statistics on goods will include improved coverage of imports filed via the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) that are valued below the established filing exemption level (low-value imports).

Because some importers filing through ACE reported their shipments by individual transaction rather than summarized them by commodity, some transactions were omitted from processing and were not included in the import statistics. The Census Bureau has improved its processes to include these individual transactions in the published commodity statistics; as a result, data users may see an increase in the value for any commodity in which lower value trade is prevalent.

For more information, please contact the Census Bureau, Economic Statistical Methods Division, International Trade Statistical Methods Branch, on (301) 763-3080.