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.
Aluminum. There is no current deployment date for updates to the entry summary user interface create/edit for non-ABI entries related to an increase in the Section 232 tariffs on imports of aluminum from Russia.
Bills 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, remains on hold.
De Minimis Shipments. CBP has delayed again, to Aug. 3, an update that will enforce the requirement to file entry type 86 (for low-value shipments) before or upon arrival of the associated cargo.
An enhancement automating the enforcement of Section 321 requirements regarding de minimis shipments remains scheduled for September. This functionality will provide a validation in ACE to ensure that an appropriate party does not receive Section 321 clearance for more than an aggregated value of $800 in shipments on a given day.
DIS Submissions. Enhancements enabling CBP to respond to all Document Image System submissions, regardless of how they are sent or their review status, was implemented June 13.
An enhancement enabling the DIS to accept vehicle export documents via electronic data interchange has been pushed back from July to August.
Plans to disable the option to submit form 1302A (cargo declaration – outward with commercial forms) in the DIS for outward vessels remain scheduled for October. Once this is done such forms will have to be submitted on paper or via ACE Export Manifest.
Drawback. CBP has yet to provide an updated schedule for implementing 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.
Event History. CBP has announced plans to deploy July 27 updates that will (1) add a new history section within the HTS user interface to capture all actions performed by users (e.g., record created, updated, deleted) and (2) add a history section to the liquidation record in the entry summary user interface to provide users with a complete audit trail for all liquidation record actions on an entry summary.
In-bonds. An enhancement improving the air in-bond process by enabling the Automated Export System to link in-bonds with ACE Multi-Modal Manifest, which will accept new messages from AES that will perform in-bond arrival/export/cancel requests for air carriers, has been moved up from December to October.
CBP has scheduled for June 22 an enhancement that will enforce the requirement to provide the FIRMS (Facilities Information and Resource Management System) code when arriving an in-bond for non-air modes of transportation.
PGAs. CBP has newly scheduled for June 25 an enhancement that will deliver a new user interface to enable partner government agency/Census Bureau users to update import parameters for both single and multiple HTSUS numbers.
CBP has also added to its schedule, for June, an update that will add broker account access to PGA documents via the modernized ACE portal.
Reports. CBP is implementing in stages throughout the summer an update adding a prompt in ACE Reports to identify the subject company whenever a report is run or scheduled. This will enable CBP to restore the ability for trade users with access to more than one account (e.g., cross-account access holders) to schedule reports for delivery by email.
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