CBP Postpones Feb. 9 ACE Deployment
CBP will postpone the entire ACE deployment that was planned for Feb. 9, due to the partial federal government shutdown, it said in a CSMS message. Government agencies resumed full operation on Jan. 28. The deployment includes "automation of CBP…
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Form 5106, unique identifiers for Centers of Excellence and Expertise," and updates to the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), CBP said. The agency will send out any updates on the deployment through another CSMS message. CBP previously said it planned to delay deployment of Form 5106 (see 1901170046). CBP also said that the "mandatory filing of drawback claims pursuant to the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (TFTEA) is not impacted by the shutdown and will proceed as planned, regardless of funding status after February 15th. On February 24, 2019, all drawback claims must be filed as TFTEA drawback and must be done so electronically in ACE."