CSMS Message: 14-000237

As many ACE Entry Summary filers are aware, there were some issues discovered with Entry Summary Validations (ESV) after the April 5, 2014 deployment.

Several fixes were deployed to ACE Production late yesterday (April 23, 2014). Those fixes include:

• A scenario where condition EST DUTY/CALC’D DUTY MISMATCH – LINE (624) was incorrectly generated. The problem traces to a case where the wrong rate (from a different time period) was used in the ESV calculation. This is especially evident in some PSC filings (because of older dates); but may occur on others. (ACE ESAR Issue number 1166)

• A scenario where one (or more) lines receive the informational LINE NOT EVALUATED FOR MPF EXEMPTION (631) condition, and the total formal MPF due was more than $25, yet less than $485, ACE/ESV was incorrectly concluding that the minimum MPF was due and erroneously generating the FORMAL MPF MINIMUM AMOUNT REQUIRED (639) condition. This was meant to be fixed with the last drop. The need to even generate the LINE NOT EVALUATED FOR MPF EXEMPTION condition has been reevaluated. The original rationale was that there were MPF complexities when a line had more than two HTS numbers. The rules, however, are straightforward no matter how many HTS numbers. This condition/rule be removed; MPF evaluation will be performed on all lines. (ACE ESAR Issue number 1170)

• A scenario where an E0-Record was returned in the AX where the Reference Data Type Code is blank and the Occurrence Position is ‘000000’ (this generally preceded an E0-Record where the Reference Data Type Code = ‘FEETOT’). (ACE ESAR Issue number 1169)

• A scenario where condition FORMAL MPF MINIMUM AMOUNT REQUIRED (639) was incorrectly generated when the filer's MPF estimate fell between $25.00 and $28.00. (ACE ESAR Issue number 1171)

A full list of ACE Entry Summary issues can be found at:

http://www.cbp.gov/document/forms/ace-entry-summary-and-related-programming-issues