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. Reference tab updates, edit functionality for account data for all account types, and vessel agent (new account type) and change history functionality (which have been moved up from phase 4) are now slated for May 21. The final phase, still anticipated by June, will transition additional capabilities such as statements, conveyance template uploads, and (postponed from phase 3) blanket declarations and document upload/management functionality for facilities and foreign-trade zones.
Aluminum. CBP deployed April 10 (though users were not impacted until May 10) functionality allowing it to collect in ACE five new data elements regarding where aluminum is smelt or cast in connection with an increase in the Section 232 tariffs on imports of aluminum from Russia to 200 percent. Enhancements to mass processing of such entries are anticipated May 23, and updates to the entry summary user interface create/edit for non-ABI entries remains 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, has been put 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.
Currency Exchange. Functionality providing clear, concise daily exchange rates to use in converting invoice values to U.S. dollar value for entry summary and other purposes remains on schedule for June 10.
Drawback. The mass liquidation of drawback entries/claims (entry type 47) remains scheduled for May 23.
CBP still 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. Still planned for Oct. 14 is the deployment of entry summary query updates that will incorporate data elements from collections and move the query from legacy ACE to new ACE.
HTS. Migration of remaining Harmonized Tariff Schedule administrative user interface, HTS query, and data conversion was due to take place May 16.
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 remains on track for this September.
Outward Declarations. CBP still 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 pushed back from July to August.
CBP also still 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 again delayed indefinitely plans to deploy an enhancement that will create an automated process for admissibility reviews and exception requests for UFLPA 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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