CSMS Message: 15-000954

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has recently posted new and updated documentation concerning the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) and Partner Government Agency (PGA) information to CBP.gov. The December 2015 posting of new and updated documentation includes:

• ACE Development and Deployment Schedule – This document provides details on when upcoming ACE capabilities will be developed and deployed into the ACE production environment.
http://www.cbp.gov/document/guidance/ace-development-and-deployment-schedule

• Agency Tariff Code to Agency Program Cross Reference – This document is the cross reference between the tariff codes and the Government agency program codes, to be used when submitting PGA data via the PGA Message Set in ACE.
http://www.cbp.gov/document/guidance/agency-tariff-code-agency-program-cross-reference

• ACE Adoption Report (November 2015) – This document provides ACE onboarding statistics, cargo release and entry summary rates, PGA Pilot Status, and deployed core capability percentages.
http://www.cbp.gov/document/report/ace-adoption-rate-report

• ABI Software Vendors List - This document provides a list of Software Vendors who are certified to submit transactions to CBP via the Automated Broker Interface (ABI). This document further specifies the CBP systems to which the vendor is certified to file ABI transactions (such as ACS, ACE, etc.).
http://www.cbp.gov/document/guidance/abi-software-vendors-list

To review the updated ACE and PGA information, please copy and paste the above URLs to your Internet browser. You may also navigate to the “ACE and Automated Systems” and “ACE Features” pages of CBP.gov/ACE.