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.
Air Cargo. An enhanced ACE multi-modal manifest to facilitate the transfer of held air cargo shipments to centralized exam stations and container freight stations has been successfully deployed.
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 still anticipates deploying in June 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 is still planned for September.
Collections. The migration of the existing credit card database to ACE Collections is still on tap for July.
Court Proceedings. CBP has established April 5 as the planned deployment date for 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 has postponed indefinitely functionality to withhold release of ineligible shipments in ACE to enforce the $800 threshold. However, an enhancement automating the removal and restoration of entry type 86 test participants is still scheduled to be released in April, and an enhancement adding bond validations for low-value shipments remains scheduled for July.
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 anticipated on April 1. Once this is done such forms will have to be submitted on paper or via ACE Export Manifest.
Exports. CBP continues to plan for spring 2025 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.
PGAs. CBP has delayed indefinitely an update adding broker/filer modernized ACE portal account access to documents sent by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Sanctions. Enhancements that will (1) implement the collection of new data elements to enable targeting of merchandise subject to sanctions on Russian diamonds and seafood, and (2) enable the non-ABI collection of new required data elements for such merchandise, have been postponed indefinitely.
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