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. Functionality still planned for deployment June 28 will allow ACE to accept “unknown” in lieu of an ISO country code for the country of primary smelt, secondary smelt, or cast for derivative aluminum imports subject to Section 232 tariffs.
Business Identifiers. CBP has postponed from June to October 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.
Cargo Descriptions. An enhancement implementing the automated rejection of insufficient manifest cargo descriptions and consignee information for ACE manifest filings and ACE cargo release entries, which had been anticipated July 15, has been delayed.
Collections. The migration of the existing credit card database to ACE Collections has been moved from June to August. CBP now plans to add in October a form to allow the payment of a new fee for vessels arrived in the Vessel Entrance and Clearance System.
De Minimis Shipments. Aug. 12 remains the planned implementation date of functionality to withhold release of ineligible shipments in ACE to enforce the $800 threshold. An enhancement adding bond validations for low-value shipments, which had been scheduled for July, has now been put on hold. An enhancement automating the removal and restoration of entry type 86 test participants also remains on hold.
DIS Submissions. Disabling the option to submit form 1302A (cargo declaration – outward with commercial forms) in the Document Imaging System for outward vessels is still scheduled for Oct. 1. Once this is done such forms will have to be submitted on paper or via ACE Export Manifest.
Drawback. CBP has announced but not scheduled an enhancement preventing filers from claiming drawback for ineligible duties associated with HTSUS Chapter 99 numbers.
Entry Summaries. CBP now plans to implement as of June 28 an enhancement to increase from 8 to 16 the number of HTSUS codes that filers may include on one entry summary line.
Exports. 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, which had been slated for July, has been postponed. CBP has also announced plans to deploy in December 2026 an enhancement enabling export manifest filers to utilize the standard X12 or EDIFACT message sets currently used to submit import truck manifest information.
Import duties. An enhancement enabling ACE to calculate estimated duties on an entry summary line when more than two HTSUS numbers are submitted has been scheduled for December.
Interoperability. Newly placed on the schedule for early September is an enhancement that, beginning as a pilot with a small set of participants, will enable the use of global interoperability standards, including decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials, to trade crude oil imports from point of origin to arrival in the U.S.
Mail Shipments. An enhancement still anticipated in July will enable CBP users to enter additional HTSUS numbers for entries in the Mail Entry Writing System, which will calculate and display the total duty rate and amount on the main entry screen. CBP now also expects to deploy in July an enhancement to the address verification in MEWS.
PGAs. CBP has delayed indefinitely an update adding broker/filer modernized ACE portal account access to documents sent by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Refunds. CBP has announced plans to deploy (1) in August an enhancement enabling trade community users to provide bank information in the ACE portal, which is necessary to receive electronic refunds via the Automated Clearinghouse, and (2) in November an enhancement enabling CBP to send electronic refunds via ACH.
Sanctions. An enhancement that will implement the collection of new data elements to enable targeting of merchandise subject to sanctions on Russian diamonds and seafood is still on hold.
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