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.
ACE Portal. The final phase, anticipated by September, will transition remaining capabilities to the modernized ACE portal, including remaining create/edit functionality for account types, create/edit functionality for supporting data, and user access management.
Aluminum. In connection with an increase in the Section 232 tariffs on imports of aluminum from Russia, updates to the entry summary user interface create/edit for non-ABI entries are scheduled for August.
Bill 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 indefinitely.
Collections. Functionality automating the budget clearing account process, enabling improved reconciliation of open receivables, integrating the port collections process into ACE collections, and enabling the entry lifecycle to be contained in one system is still expected Oct. 14.
Drawback. CBP has yet to provide an updated schedule for a new indicator that filers will use to show if they are submitting a substitution claim or a direct identification claim for drawback provisions 56 and 70 under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
Entry Summary. Entry summary query updates that will incorporate data elements from collections and move the query from legacy ACE to new ACE are anticipated Oct. 14.
Immediate Delivery. An enhancement that will allow filers to transmit an ID request on an entry and will populate the data in ACE Cargo Release and Entry Summary is expected to be deployed Sept. 30.
Outward Declarations. CBP plans to disable as of Oct. 1 the option to submit form 1302A (cargo declaration – outward with commercial forms) in the Document Image System for outward vessels. Such forms must instead be submitted on paper or via ACE Export Manifest.
Truck Manifests. An enhancement allowing ACE Truck Manifest to infer class of admission based on travel documents that the primary inspection process returns for all crew members and passengers present in the conveyance at the crossing has been scheduled for Aug. 29. CBP also plans to deploy in August an enhancement that includes the development and integration of additional non-intrusive inspection capabilities, including artificial intelligence/machine learning models for ACE truck manifest modernization.
UFLPA. CBP has not provided an expected deployment date for an enhancement that will create an automated process for admissibility reviews and exception requests for Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act detentions. This will include automating the completion and issuance of the CBP form 6051D and attachment 2B as well as a public site to which the trade can upload documentation and submit for CBP review and from which CBP can track, review, and determine final dispositions.
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