CSMS Message: 13-000530

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would like to remind the trade community of the upcoming Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Deployment A, scheduled for November 2, 2013. Deployment A will be the first of seven planned deployments that will support CBP's plan to complete core trade processing capabilities in ACE and decommission the Automated Commercial System (ACS) by the end of 2016.

With the implementation of ACE deployment A, the trade community will benefit from the following ACE capabilities:

• ACE Cargo Release (also known as Simplified Entry) pilot expansion will integrate In-bonds, split shipments and partial quantities and provide trade pilot participants the capability of transmitting entry corrections and cancellations via the Automated Broker Interface (ABI).

• Entry Summary Validations will improve the quality of ACE entry summary data received from the trade community. Harbor Maintenance Fee and tariff classification edits will be implemented and additional validations will be added in future deployments.

• The PGA Message set will allow trade filers to electronically submit required shipment data to PGAs. Two initial PGA Message Set pilots will begin in late November, allowing trade filers to submit PGA required data to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for vehicles and engines and ozone- depleting substances and to the Food Safety and Inspection Services (FSIS) for meat, poultry and eggs.

Concurrent with Deployment A, CBP will implement a required software upgrade to ACE Reports that will result in changes to how users view and run reports. Additionally, the Authorized Data Extracts (ADEs) will be relocated to a separate interface.

In preparation for the ACE reports upgrade, CBP would like to remind all ACE Reports users of the following recommendations and provide information on the location of ACE reports training materials:

• If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 10, Compatibility View settings must be disabled prior to logging on to your ACE Portal Account and launching the new ACE Reports Interface tool. To do this, select the Tools menu on the Command bar in Internet Explorer and then select Compatibility View Settings. Ensure that all three checkboxes in the Compatibility View Settings dialog box are set to “off” (unchecked) and select OK.

• Please note that you might need to reactivate Compatibility View, using the same process as above, for some other browser-based applications to operate properly.

• An updated “ACE Reports User Guide For Trade” has been posted to the “ACE Training and Reference Guides” page, under the “ACE Reports” topic at CBP.gov. You may also download a copy directly by copying the following URL to your internet browser: http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/automated/modernization/ace_welcome/ace_reports/ace_report_user.ctt/ace_report_user.pdf

• A new “Authorized Data Extract Quick Reference Guide” has been posted to the “ACE Training and Reference Guides” page, under the “ACE Reports” topic at CBP.gov. You may also download a copy directly by copying the following URL to your internet browser:
http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/automated/modernization/ace_welcome/ace_reports/ace_qrg.ctt/ace_qrg.pdf

• A basic ACE Reports for Trade webinar will be posted early next week to the “ACE Training and Reference Guides” page, under the “ACE Reports” topic at CBP.gov.

• All customized, modified, and shared reports must be saved to the “Favorites” sub-folder inside “My Folders” in order to be migrated over and made available to trade users in the new ACE Reports interface following the November 2, 2013 deployment.

• Authorized Data Extracts (ADEs) saved to the “Favorites’’ folder will not be migrated and made available in a new ACE Reports interface. ADE users will need to use the new ADE interface to access and schedule extracts.

• The ACE Program Office blocked out the week of October 28 – November 2, 2013 to accommodate the reports migration. ACE reports created or modified during the blocked out week will not be migrated over into the new interface.

• Scheduled ACE reports will not be migrated and will need to be rescheduled after the deployment.

Additional information about ACE Deployment A and new capabilities can also be found on the “ACE: Modernization Information Systems” page on CBP.gov.