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The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) is the CBP's electronic system through which the international trade community reports imports and exports and the government determines admissibility.

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CBP Not Accepting USMCA Drawback Claims Until Further Notice
July 1, 2020 |Customs

Drawback filers should not file any USMCA drawback claims at this time, CBP said in a CSMS message. Some technical changes to ACE need to be made before CBP can accept USMCA claims, and the agency will send out another CSMS message when they have been deployed. “Please continue to file NAFTA drawback claims, if applicable, under the NAFTA requirements,” CBP said. Filers will not be allowed to commingle NAFTA and USMCA imports on the same drawback claim. “The date of entry determines which agreement controls, not the date of claim,” it said.

Topics:Drawback, USMCA
APHIS to Delay Full Implementation for Core PGA Message Set Filing in ACE
June 30, 2020 |USDA

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will delay its deadline for ACE filing of its “APHIS Core” partner government agency (PGA) message set until January 2021, it said in an emailed bulletin June 30. APHIS had originally set a mandatory use date of Aug. 3, but “in response to stakeholder concerns about operational and economic setbacks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, APHIS will publish a second Federal Register notice in the coming weeks that will delay implementation,” the agency said. “This action will give the trade community time to recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare for this change.” In the meantime, filers should continue to prepare for mandatory filing, APHIS said. The Aug. 3 deadline was set to include APHIS-regulated plants, plant products, animal products, or live dog imports, besides Lacey Act data already required in ACE, but was not going to include live animal imports, APHIS had said.

Topics:Lacey Act, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
FWS on Track to Allow Unlimited ACE Filing in July, Enforce FWS Flags Around End of Year
June 23, 2020 |Other U.S.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is on track to open up its ACE filing pilot to all filers on July 6, with an eye to issuing a final rule making use of the FWS partner government agency (PGA) message set mandatory at the end of the year, FWS senior wildlife inspector Rhyan Tompkins said on a June 22 webinar hosted by the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America.