Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) has been advised by the Department of Home Affairs existing Type 3 digital certificate will now be replaced with a new SHA2 Gatekeeper certificate on 20 October 2021.as outlined in ACN 2021-42
This notice replaces ACN 2021/39 which was published on 22 September 2021.
This means that users who send messages to the Integrated Cargo System (in both Industry Test and Production), using electronic data interchange (EDI) must continue to use the current Home Affairs certificate until 23:59, 28 September 2021 and must switch to the new Home Affairs certificate from 29 September 2021.
This replacement does not affect any digital certificates you or your organisation may have purchased.
The change is related to Home Affairs Gatekeeper's Certificate, -NOT the Device Certificate purchased by the users.
We have contacted FTA Sponsors (WiseTech Global, BluJay/Expedient) who confirmed they will be communicating directly with users regarding the change.
Note that It ia recommended that users should manage message submission earlier on 19th October , as ICS will have 4 hours outage on 20 October from 00:00-04:00 and it may cause backlog delay with message processing in ICS when the system is running again.
Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) has also been advised by the Department of Home Affairs that the amendments to the Customs Tariff Act 1995 and the Customs Act 1901 required to implement the 2022 Harmonized System passed the Parliament on 26 September 2021 and received the Royal Assent on 2 September 2021 as outlined in ACN 2021-40
The amendments will commence on 1 January 2022.
Information relating to the implementation of the 2022 Harmonized System can be found on the Australian Border Force website
Working Tariff pages, which include import statistical codes, will be published on the Australia Border Force website later in the year.
The Online Tariff will continue to use the 2017 version of the Harmonized System and will change over to the 2022 version of the Harmonized System on 1 January 2022.
Incorporation of Customs Tariff Proposals No. 1 to 3 of 2021
The amendments required to incorporate Customs Tariff Proposals No. 1 to 3 passed Parliament on 30 August 2021 and received the Royal Assent on 13 September 2021.
The text of the amendment is available below:
Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Act 2021
Sal Milici - Head of Border and Biosecurity - FTA / APSA
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