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 newly 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.
Bills of Lading. The deployment of functionality to release ocean cargo at the lowest shipment level, which would also provide a new user interface for container freight station operators to view information as released at the lowest shipment level, does not appear on CBP’s most recent update.
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 and consignee information for ACE manifest filings and ACE cargo release entries has been moved up from September to July 15.
Collections. The migration of the existing credit card database to ACE Collections has been moved from July to June.
Court Proceedings. CBP has successfully deployed 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 accelerated from September to Aug. 12 the deployment of functionality to withhold release of ineligible shipments in ACE to enforce the $800 threshold. An enhancement adding bond validations for low-value shipments remains scheduled for July. However, an enhancement automating the removal and restoration of entry type 86 test participants, previously slated for April, has been put 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.
Entry Summaries. CBP has announced plans to implement as of June 14 an enhancement to increase from 8 to 32 the number of HTSUS codes that filers may include on one entry summary line.
Exports. CBP has pushed back from spring to summer 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.
Mail Shipments. An enhancement newly planned for 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.
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, are still on hold.
Tariffs. CBP planned to implement May 15 an enhancement enabling ACE to enforce the appropriate single tariff rate when an import is subject to multiple tariff rates. This “unstacking” functionality is to be retroactively applied to all entries filed on or after March 4, 2025.
CBP newly plans to deploy May 24 an enhancement adding a new class code in ACE Collections to accept payments via pay.gov and Fedwire (alternate payment method) in support of a presidential executive order implementing “reciprocal” tariffs.
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