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CBP Sets 'Hard Cutover Date' of May 31 for Changes to FDA Programming in ACE

The deployment of updates to the Food and Drug Administration’s PGA message set on May 31 will be a “hard cutover date,” and “the rules are not backwards compatible,” said CBP in a CSMS message sent May 18. “The queues…

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will be stopped at 6am for this deployment,” and “all messages queued upon completion of the deployment will be processed using the new rules,” it said. ACE software developers had been urging CBP to make the changes backward compatible for a month to avoid issues with FDA entries on the May 31 cutover date (see 1605130028).