CBP later this month will remove the launch button for the Automated Export System from the legacy ACE Portal, the agency said in an Oct. 10 CSMS message. Following this change, effective Oct. 21, users will only be able to launch the AESDirect User Interface from the modernized ACE Portal. The message includes step-by-step instructions for launching AESDirect from the modernized ACE Portal.
Cynthia Allen left FedEx Logistics on Sept. 7, and will be “taking some time off with family and friends to lazily contemplate my next career move,” she said in a post on LinkedIn. Allen, a former member of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) who had previously led CBP’s ACE Business Office, was vice president of regulatory affairs and compliance at the company.
Future outbound notifications in the Automated Commercial Environment for ocean, air, rail and in-bond's may be delayed two hours “for the foreseeable future,” CBP said in an Aug. 10 CSMS message. The agency said it’s “working on a fix to speed these notifications up and another CSMS will be issued when that has been implemented.”
CBP this week deployed a new export manifest-related informational response message in the Automated Commercial Environment’s (ACE) certification environment “for the Ocean House Bill Release,” CBP said in a June 6 CSMS message. New message 610 will appear with the description “Empty Vessel (Departure Message – No bill associated to that vessel),” CBP said. “A date for release to the Production environment will be sent in a future message.”
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee issued an update on the status of its Export Modernization Working Group as well as one draft recommendation for CBP ahead of the COAC’s June 14 meeting.
CBP April 5 said it was working on a “resolution” to fix “navigation issues” to the Automated Export System Direct filing tool in the ACE Modernized Portal. The agency asked users to instead navigate to AESDirect by “logging in and launching the ‘Legacy ACE’ on the reference tab,” according to a CSMS message. “This will allow you to select ‘Exporter’ under the accounts tab and launch AESDirect from that point.” CBP said it plans to issue another message “once a fix has been implemented.”
CBP recently deployed a new link to the Automated Export System Direct Portal as part of its ACE Portal modernization efforts, the Census Bureau said in a Jan. 12 email to industry. The ACE “References Tab” now has a link, AES Direct UI (login required), to access the AES portal, Census said. “Users should begin navigating to the AESDirect Portal using only the ‘AES Direct UI’ link,” the agency said. “Access through the ‘Legacy ACE’ link will be discontinued in the future.”
The Census Bureau deployed a new informational message in the Automated Export System Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) certification environment Jan. 10, which will be alerting exporters when the U.S. Principal Party in Interest address state field and state of origin field don’t match (see 2212220023). In a Jan. 9 CSMS message, CBP reminded industry that exporters and software developers submitting Electronic Export Information through the Electronic Data Interface will “need to program and test their software so that their clients receive the new response code message.” CBP also said the message will be active in the ACE production environment on Feb. 7.
CBP posted the following documents ahead of the Dec. 7 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting:
CBP posted several documents ahead of the Sept. 14 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting: