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. There is no current date for deploying 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.
De Minimis Shipments. CBP deployed July 25 an update enforcing the requirement to include the estimated date of arrival for all entry type 86 submissions (for Section 321 de minimis shipments) before or upon arrival of the associated cargo.
An enhancement automating the enforcement of Section 321 requirements regarding de minimis shipments remains scheduled for September. 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.
DIS Submissions. Enhancements to the Document Image System to facilitate document submissions via electronic data interchange for both import and export vehicle-related transactions are now scheduled to be deployed Aug. 22.
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 has announced that it anticipates deploying in late August ACE programming to permit the filing of direct identification retail return drawback claims with exports to Canada or Mexico utilizing ACE provision codes 56 and 70.
CBP has newly scheduled for (1) late August functionality making accelerated payment available for all USMCA drawback claims and (2) Sept. 17 functionality providing a new class code and enhancing the ACE drawback module to allow for drawback of petroleum Superfund taxes.
Event History. CBP deployed July 13 an update adding a new history section within the HTS user interface to capture all actions performed by users (e.g., record created, updated, deleted). CBP was expected to deploy July 27 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 has added for 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.
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 has delayed from June 22 to Aug. 10 an enhancement that will enforce the requirement to provide the FIRMS (Facilities Information and Resource Management System) code when arriving an in-bond for non-air modes of transportation.
PGAs. CBP was expected to deploy July 13 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 pushed back from June to July an update adding broker account access to PGA documents via the modernized ACE portal.
Reports. CBP is implementing in stages throughout the summer an update adding a prompt in ACE Reports to identify the subject company whenever a report is run or scheduled. This will enable CBP to restore the ability for trade users with access to more than one account (e.g., cross-account access holders) to schedule reports for delivery by email.
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