U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued the following update regarding the status of pilot tests that participating government agencies are conducting with respect to the ongoing transition to the Automated Commercial Environment.
| Agency | Pilot Status |
| Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (Lacey Act) | concluded March 31 |
| Food and Drug Administration | concluded May 2 |
| National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | concluded March 31 |
| APHIS (core) | anticipated conclusion in July |
| Directorate of Defense Trade Controls | began in May and will not close until a sufficient number of successful filings have been processed |
| Federal Communications Commission | data submission will be waived and any submission will be rejected upon the July 23 deployment to ACE |
| Food Safety and Inspection Service | anticipated conclusion in June |
| National Marine Fisheries Service | anticipated conclusion July 23 |
| Agricultural Marketing Service | ongoing with two filers at ports of Philadelphia and L.A./Long Beach and will continue until review of regulatory requirements is conducted |
| Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms | will continue until review of regulatory requirements is conducted |
| Environmental Protection Agency (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act) | limited to nine importers (still accepting applicants); will continue until publication of final regulations allowing collection of additional data |
| EPA (Toxic Substances Control Act) | will continue until publication of final regulations allowing collection of electronic data |
| EPA (vehicles and engines) | separate pilots for on-road (open to all) and off-road (restricted to nine importers, all of which have been selected); will continue until publication of final regulations allowing collection of additional data |
| Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau | will continue until publication of final regulations allowing collection of electronic data |
| Consumer Product Safety Commission | expected to begin in July and continue throughout part of 2017 |
| Drug Enforcement Administration | expected to begin in July |
| Fish and Wildlife Service | Federal Register notice published May 5 but pilot not yet started |
CBP notes that these pilots are generally not restricted to a certain group of customs brokers and self-filers and therefore encourages all brokers and self-filers that are ready to file in ACE to file entries for the currently available entry types in ACE for the following PGAs: APHIS (Lacey and core), ATF, DDTC, EPA (TSCA, ODS, on-road V&E), FDA, FSIS, NHTSA and TTB.
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