U.S. Customs and Border Protection has updated its schedule for deploying additional functionality to the Automated Commercial Environment.
ACE functionality, including data reports, can help importers and others boost compliance and duty savings efforts. For more information, please contact attorney Lenny Feldman via email or at (305) 894-1011.
Aluminum. CBP has now scheduled for September updates to the entry summary user interface create/edit for non-ABI entries related to an increase in the Section 232 tariffs on imports of aluminum from Russia.
Bills of Lading. The deployment of functionality to release ocean cargo at the lowest shipment level, which will also provide a new user interface for container freight station operators to view information as released at the lowest shipment level, remains on hold.
Business identifiers. CBP plans to implement in April 2025 functionality that (1) expands the global business identifier proof of concept enrollment process by enabling trade users to submit one, two, or all three of the global identifiers for any party type and (2) adds an additional free text field allowing filers to input additional descriptions about the party/GBI number provided.
Collections. CBP has announced plans to deploy this October enhancements that (1) provide the necessary logic to properly post seized refunds upon the transition from the CBP Treasury Forfeiture Fund accounting workload to Treasury’s Administrative Resource Center service provider and (2) provide a new user interface that allows CBP personnel to monitor, track, and manage serial numbered forms pads.
Court Proceedings. CBP plans to deploy in March 2025 an enhancement creating a new record type in the ACE court case module to create administrative records for Enforce and Protect Act and forced labor cases brought to the Court of International Trade.
De Minimis Shipments. CBP deployed Aug. 17 an update enforcing the requirement to file entry type 86 transactions (for low-value shipments) prior to or upon the arrival of the cargo at the first port of arrival. CBP states that for permits to proceed and shipments moving in-bond, timely filing will be based on arrival at the first port of arrival, not the port of entry. If an entry type 86 is filed after the cargo has arrived at the first port of arrival the entry will be rejected and the cargo will be held until a different and appropriate entry is made (such as release from manifest or an entry type 01 or 11).
An enhancement automating the enforcement of Section 321 requirements regarding de minimis shipments is scheduled for Sept. 28. This functionality will provide a validation in ACE to ensure that an appropriate party does not receive Section 321 clearance for more than an aggregated value of $800 in shipments on a given day.
CBP has announced plans to deploy in April 2025 an enhancement automating the removal and restoration of entry type 86 test participants.
CBP has scheduled for August 2025 an enhancement adding bond validations for low-value shipments, requiring carriers and operators to provide CBP with any cargo held or selected for inspection and enabling CBP to verify active bonds in ACE.
DIS Submissions. Enhancements to the Document Image System to facilitate document submissions via electronic data interchange for both import and export vehicle-related transactions have been postponed from Aug. 22 to Sept. 28.
Disabling the option to submit form 1302A (cargo declaration – outward with commercial forms) in the DIS for outward vessels remains scheduled for October. Once this is done such forms will have to be submitted on paper or via ACE Export Manifest.
Drawback. CBP was set to deploy Aug. 20 enhancements that (1) restore the ability to file accelerated payment for USMCA drawback claims and (2) add a new indicator for filers to indicate whether they are filing a substitution or direct identification retail return drawback claim.
Functionality providing a new class code and enhancing the ACE drawback module to allow for drawback of petroleum Superfund taxes remains scheduled for Sept. 17.
Event History. CBP postponed from July 27 to Aug. 17 an update adding a history section to the liquidation record in the entry summary user interface to provide users with a complete audit trail for all liquidation record actions on an entry summary.
Exports. CBP still plans to deploy in October an enhancement providing a trade-facing electronic export manifest portal to enable the filing of truck EEM bills of lading prior to departing the U.S. for Mexico or Canada and to allow carriers to add account data.
FAST. CBP has newly added for September an enhancement updating the ACE manifest user interface to (1) add the search option “search shipper/consignee” and a feature to add shippers and consignees and (2) add the ability to convert historical data that does not have FAST information on carrier, consignee, org broker, and shipper accounts.
In-bonds. An enhancement improving the air in-bond process by enabling the Automated Export System to link in-bonds with ACE Multi-Modal Manifest, which will accept new messages from AES that will perform in-bond arrival/export/cancel requests for air carriers, remains scheduled for October.
CBP deployed Aug. 10 an enhancement enforcing the requirement to provide the FIRMS (Facilities Information and Resource Management System) code when arriving an in-bond for non-air modes of transportation.
Mass processing. Newly announced functionality enabling CBP users to simultaneously update multiple entry summaries to a specific version number or their most recent version number is scheduled for November.
PGAs. CBP postponed from July 13 to Aug. 27 an enhancement delivering a new user interface to enable partner government agency/Census Bureau users to update import parameters for both single and multiple HTSUS numbers. CBP also pushed back again, from July to Sept. 17, an update adding broker account access to PGA documents via the modernized ACE portal.
Samples. CBP plans to implement in October functionality supporting ACE entry summary data becoming available in the Laboratories and Scientific Services Information Management System to enable electronic validation of information linked to trade sample analytical requests.
Steel. CBP plans to deploy in February 2025 an enhancement supporting the addition of the steel melt and pour field to CBP Form 7501.
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