U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted updates on its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) as of September 2011. CBP outlines and provides certain statistics on deployed ACE capabilities, such as e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1), Importer Security Filing (ISF), Participating Government Agency (PGA) access to ACE, etc. CBP also provides an update on the project status of: (i) ITDS initiatives, which include PGA interfaces/interoperability, PGA Message Set, and Document Image System; (ii) full deployment of M1, which is scheduled for the winter of 2012; and (iii) Cargo Release.
In CSMS #11-000217, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reminds that trade that effective September 22, 2011, the use of ABI to file Post Summary Corrections for ACE entry summaries types 01 and 03 will be mandatory. The paper Post Entry Amendments (PEAs) will no longer be allowed for such entry summaries filed in ACE.
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The Trade Support Network1 will be meeting on September 22-23, 2011 to continue discussions on the development of the Automated Commercial Environment. One of the many topics that will be covered is the priority ACE entry summary edits needed by the trade, and CBP’s new “filter” concept for meeting this need.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted a report to Congress on the establishment of a Risk Assessment Methodology (RAM) to systematically analyze 100% of shipments within CPSC’s jurisdiction to ensure that adequate resources are dedicated to the highest risk shipments as indicated by targeting rules. CPSC believes that this system would result in less “port shopping” and more inspection and sampling, but would also allow consistently compliant products to move faster through the ports.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000216 stating that the introduction of ACE M1 will require all brokers participating in Rail Line Release to have Entry Banks created in ACE. The ACE Entry Bank numbers must be unique and cannot overlap with the ACS Entry Bank numbers. All Entry Banks must be created in the ACE Portal no later than Friday, 9/23/11.For more information on how to create and maintain Entry Banks in the ACE Portal, please refer to the User Guide distributed in CSMS #11-000208.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing that the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (COAC) will meet on October 4, 2011 in El Paso, TX from 1 pm to 6 pm.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources state that the agency is still planning to discontinue the use of Post-Entry Amendments (PEAs) for entry summaries filed in the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), effective September 22, 2011. For entry summaries filed after that date, only Post Summary Corrections (PSCs) will be allowed in ACE.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS#11-000214 stating that previous communications have identified access to the Shared Reports folder as one of the many general ACE Portal capabilities included in the e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1) release. However, since the deployment of M1 functionality, CBP has discovered an issue related to the Shared Reports folder. Users will not have access to the folder until the issue is resolved. A CSMS will be issued when access to the folder becomes available.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted a document on in-bond authorization for rail and sea carriers in ACE since the deployment of ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1). The document provides instructions on how to create and maintain a carrier in-bond authorization, grant additional port access to an existing authorized partner, edit date parameters for authorized partners, remove ports from an authorized partner, and remove authorized partners from an account in ACE.