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CBP Issues Harmonized System Update With 14,711 ABI Records, 3,163 Harmonized Tariff Records
August 8, 2016 |Customs

CBP created Harmonized System Update (HSU) 1609 on July 21, and HSU 1610 on Aug. 4, the agency said in a CSMS message (here). Modifications include changes to support new ACE license, permit and certificate (LPC) functionality and adjustments made as result of a recent Food and Drug Administration Deeming Rule for Tobacco, effective Aug. 8, 2016. More information can be found on the FDA’s website (here). Further modifications include the addition of EPA PGA indicators to be used with PGA Message Set submissions, CBP said. The modified records are currently available to all ABI participants and can be retrieved electronically via the procedures indicated in the CATAIR, CBP said. Further information: Jennifer Keeling, Jennifer.Keeling@dhs.gov

Hard Cutover for ACE Protest as ACS Switches Off on Aug. 27, but One-Day Grace Period Allowed, CBP Says
August 8, 2016 |Top News

CBP will allow a one-day grace period for electronic protests required to be filed in ACE after the agency’s Aug. 27 cutover, it said in an update on transition procedures surrounding the deadline (here). ACE will be the only system for protests filed via the Automated Broker Interface (ABI) after deployment of ACE protest capabilities on Aug. 27. The legacy Automated Commercial System (ACS) will be taken offline for protests, and “all electronic protests must be filed via the ACE Secure Data Portal (ACE Portal),” CBP said. However, “because of the unique circumstance of the unavailability of ACS” for protests on Aug. 28, a Sunday, CBP will accept electronic protests that were due on Aug. 28 “to be filed in ACE on the next business day” of Aug. 29, it said.

CBP Expands ACE Portal Account Testing To Include Protests
August 5, 2016 |Customs

CBP will add "Protest Filer Account" testing to its ACE Portal pilot, the agency said in a notice (here). "The owner of an ACE Protest Filer Account will have the ability to create and maintain through the ACE Portal information regarding the name, address, and contact information for the corporate and individual account owner for the Protest Filer Account," CBP said. "Protest filers will use the existing account structure established for other accounts within the ACE Portal." CBP will later test electronic protest submissions through the ACE Protest Module from Protest Filer Accounts, CBP said. "Parties authorized to file a protest include importers or consignees for an entry, or their sureties; persons paying any charge or exaction; persons seeking entry or delivery; persons filing a claim for drawback; exporters or producers of the merchandise subject to a determination of origin under section 202 of the NAFTA Implementation Act, if the exporter or producer completed and signed a NAFTA Certificate of Origin covering the merchandise; or the authorized agent of any of these persons," CBP said. "When a protest is filed by a person acting as an agent for the principal that agent must have a power of attorney that grants authority to the agent to make, sign and file a protest on behalf of the protesting party." CBP recently announced the end to electronic protests through the Automated Commercial System (see 1607270015). Electronic filing will require use of ACE starting Aug. 27, CBP said last month (see 1607070032).

Topics:Drawback
ACE AESDirect To Undergo Outage This Weekend
August 4, 2016 |Commerce Dept.

ACE AESDirect will undergo an outage from 10 p.m. Aug. 6 to 4 a.m. Aug. 7, the Census Bureau said in an email. Filers may submit shipments under the AES Downtime Policy, which must be filed along with any new AES transactions in ACE AESDirect after the system comes back online. Census advised AES Downtime export users to contact the port of export before filing, and in lieu of an AES Proof of Filing citation, to use the AES Downtime citation, consisting of the phrase “AESDOWN,” individual company Filer ID and date.

NCBFAA Calls on CBP To Fix System Issues, Bring Back Functionalities Lost in ACS-ACE Transition
August 4, 2016 by Brian Feito|Top News

ACE filers continue to face downtime and slowdown issues worse than those encountered in the legacy Automated Commercial System, and several functionalities essential to the trade community are still unavailable, including some that were available in the legacy system before it was mostly shut down July 23, the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America said in a position paper (here). “Much remains to be done” before the implementation of ACE can be declared a success, with performance of some aspects of the new electronic filing regime still lagging behind that of the ACS, it said.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)