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CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:

Automated Commercial Environment capabilities for quota validation and mail, passenger and pipeline entry processing are now available in ACE as of July 11, said CBP in an update on ACE Deployment E (here). The agency also said ACE capabilities for remote location filing, a single pay option, entry type 52, and entry summary types 51 and 52 will be available in ACE on Aug. 8. The capabilities were originally scheduled for production on June 27, but CBP postponed parts of the deployment due to issues with ACE air manifest (see 1506290018).

CBP took several steps to help resolve some worries over industry's readiness for the planned Nov. 1 transition date to Automated Commercial Environment after an agency survey found concerns, CBP said. CBP outlined some of its recent work on the subject as part of a broad outline of the survey results (here). Industry leaders last month asked CBP to make some major changes to the ACE timeline because the risk of potential disruptions is too big (see 1506300016). Despite the worries, CBP found ACE users to be increasingly pleased with system operations, it said.

CBP will test several new features for Remote Location Filing as part of the agency's move toward required use of the Automated Commercial Environment electronic filing, CBP said in a notice (here). CBP will use the pilot to consider the reliability and viability of making more entry types eligible for RLF, it said. RLF allows for national permit holders to file an entry electronically away from where the goods are being entered.

CBP will begin a test of air cargo manifest filing for exports within the Automated Commercial Environment, the agency said in a notice (here). The voluntary test will require participants to submit export data electronically at least four hours before loading, the agency said. Currently, the complete manifest is required on paper CBP Form 7509 after departure, said CBP. The pilot will begin on Aug. 10 and is scheduled to last for two years, said CBP.

The Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) for CBP will next meet July 29 in Rosemont, Illinois, CBP said in a notice (here).

CBP posted to its website an updated version of its CATAIR chapter on Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Entry Summary Create/Update (here), it said in a CSMS message (here). The revised CATAIR chapter includes changes "pertinent to additional Entry Type Codes (02, 06, 07, 12, 21, 22, 23, 31, 32, 34, 38, 51, and 52)," many of which CBP recently delayed until Oct. 31 (see 1506030054). CBP also included a revised
ACS-EI to ACE-AE Entry Summary Condition Cross Reference, updated with all the new ACE Entry Summary (AE) codes and additional information, it said. Both documents can be found on CBP's ACE CATAIR webpage (here) under the "Draft Chapters for Future Capabilities" section.

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CBP will target 200 “top filers” in its efforts to promote industry adoption of the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) ahead of the Nov. 1 deadline for entry summary and cargo release, according to a press release issued by the Trade Support Network (TSN) following a conference held June 23-25 in Washington.