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CBP Posts Updated TSN ACE User Requirement Tracking Matrix and ACE EDI Message Draft

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site an updated Trade Support Network (TSN) committee Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) user requirement tracking matrix and an ACE Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) message draft.

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Updated ACE User Requirement Tracking Matrix

CBP has posted an updated ACE user requirement tracking matrix, dated February 6, 2004, which replaces the previous July 16, 2003 version of the matrix. According to CBP, this matrix provides a listing of the ACE user requirements recommendations submitted by the TSN committees and includes the number assigned to the requirement, a brief description, the date submitted to CBP, and the tracking of the requirement as it relates to ACE development.

(See ITT's Online Archives or 02/23/04 and 04/09/04 news, 04022325 and 04040910, for BP summaries of new and updated TSN ACE user requirements recommendations posted to the CBP Web site after February 6, 2004.)

This updated tracking matrix is available at http://www.cbp.gov/ImageCache/cgov/content/import/modernization/trade_5fsupport_5fnetwork/user_5frequirements_5fmatrix/user_5freq_5ftracking_5fmatrix_2epdf/v2/user_5freq_5ftracking_5fmatrix.pdf.

Updated ACE EDI Message Draft

In addition, CBP has posted the following updated ACE EDI Message draft:

MEDPID EDI Message for Crew, Conveyance, and Equipment - MEDPID Create, Updated, Deactivate (dated as of 04/13/04)

This and other ACE EDI message drafts are available at

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/ace_edi_drafts/medpid/.