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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 Completes ACE Statements Deployment With Minor Issues
January 8, 2018 |Customs

CBP completed its deployment of ACE statements over the Jan. 6-7 weekend, it said in a CSMS message. “CBP was able to verify that the ACE Statements system started successfully processing and transmitting responses back to trade,” it said. The agency has “been keeping a close eye on things,” having mostly resolved “some issues that fell out of the deployment,” and is monitoring others that are not yet fixed, John Everett of CBP’s Trade Transformation Office said during a call the afternoon of Jan. 8. CBP ran its first ACE daily statements just after midnight on Jan. 8, and “had a couple of challenges but got all the statements out,” Jim Byram of CBP’s Office of Information Technology said during the call. Some filers applied the ACE changes one day earlier than they should have, and as a result received “strange amounts” on their Jan. 7 statements, he said. “If you see something weird, that may be a reason why,” Byram said.

ACE Statements Deployment Set for Weekend, Filers Should Avoid Warehouse Entries, NCBFAA Says
January 5, 2018 |Customs

CBP will deploy statement capabilities in ACE over the Jan. 6 weekend, making ACE the “system of record for all statements with the exception of Reconciliation statements,” said the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders in an emailed reminder. “CBP will work with filers to address any issues related to this deployment of Statements in ACE, and will provide support as necessary,” hosting a series of calls starting on Jan. 7 at 1 p.m. and then continuing daily Jan. 8 through Jan. 12 at 2 p.m. (call in number 877-336-1828, access code 6124214). CBP recently posted its updated cutover plan for the ACE statements deployment (see 1712180042). Reconciliation statements will be rolled alongside the broader deployment of reconciliation itself in February (see 1712180042).

CBP Extends Non-Enforcement of In-bond Regulatory Changes
January 5, 2018 by Tim Warren|Top News

CBP will not enforce changes to the agency's in-bond regulations for another six months beyond when the agency previously planned to enforce the new rules, it said in a Jan. 4 CSMS message. The agency previously planned to stop accepting paper copies of CBP Form 7512 for input of in-bond records on Jan. 8, but now that won't take place until July 2, it said. "CBP Officers will continue to accept paper CBP Form 7512 and input the data on the trade’s behalf until July 2," the agency said.

'Root Cause Analysis' of Internal CBP ACE Outage Underway
December 28, 2017 by Tim Warren|Top News

CBP is still looking at the reason behind an internal ACE issue that left some agency users unable to access several functions (see 1712220011), a CBP spokesman said. The problems began on Dec. 22 when "internal CBP users who were not already logged into certain functionality associated with [ACE] were unable to access that functionality," he said. "A root cause analysis on the reason for the issue is underway. Internal users who were already logged in when the issue began were able to continue working."