| Title: | Updated ACE Transition Timeline |
|---|---|
| Date: | 2016-09-08 |
| To: | abi,acee,acep,acer,edi,newace,partner |
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been assessing stakeholder readiness for the mandatory transition of post-release capabilities in ACE and has heard from key industry partners on the need for additional flexibility in this transition. As a result, CBP is moving this date from October 1, 2016 to October 29, 2016 to allow additional time for our trade stakeholders to transition these capabilities to ACE.
This adjustment affects the mandatory filing of liquidation, drawback, reconciliation, duty deferral, collections, statements, and automated surety interface.
All capabilities included in the October 29, 2016 transition that are planned for but not yet deployed to the Certification environment (CERT) will be operational in CERT, and all known prioritized issues will be resolved, no later than September 30, 2016.
While CBP has implemented the capability for most Partner Government Agency (PGA) data to be filed electronically in ACE, trade users may continue to file a combination of CBP electronic data and PGA paper forms where that is currently permitted.
* APHIS Lacey, NHTSA, FDA and as of 9/20/16, NMFS, data is required to be
filed electronically in ACE.
* For PGA data that is not required to be filed electronically in ACE, filers
may file using options currently specified as available for those PGAs.
* CBP will continue to coordinate and communicate as required the conclusion of
PGA pilots via public notices.
To ensure quick resolution of any issues that may arise following the October 29th deployment, CBP will stand up an operations center to support the transition to ACE for post-release capabilities for CBP users. Trade users will continue to contact their assigned Client Representative as the first line point of contact. Client Representatives will escalate trade issues as needed to the operations center. Additional information on support during the transition will be published prior to the October 29th deployment.
The information in this notice will be posted on cbp.gov by September 8.
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