CBP's ACE Courtesy Liq Report for Importers & Guide Now Available
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued CSMS #11-000226 on the new AM 100 Courtesy Notice of Liquidation Report for importers. This Information Notice provides instructions on locating and running the AM 100 report, as well as information on customization.
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(CSMS #11-000227 adds that the deployment process for this new report has concluded and the report can now be run and data can be pulled from the liquidation tables, see below.)
Scope. The report will reflect the most current liquidation status and liquidation amounts. Extension and Suspension information will continue to be printed and mailed to the appropriate parties; it will not be available in the AM 100 report. In addition, the report will not include Entry Types 11 (Informal) and 12 (Quota).
Objects available, customizing. Objects available in the standard report include: Importer Number, Importer Name, Goods Entered Port Code, Goods Entered Port Name, Filer Code, Entry Number, Date of Entry, Entry Type Code, Liquidation Date, Initial Amount, Liquidation Amount, Liquidation Status Description and Batch Number.
Users can also add the “Cycle Begin” and “Cycle End” dates to the report. See CBP's instructions for information on customizing the report and modifying other reports for certain information from the AM 100.
Nightly updates, 2 week cycle. Liquidation updates will occur nightly. The report will only display changes to liquidations in the next two week cycle. Thus if a new liquidation was processed that falls in the next two week cycle then it would appear on the report. If the liquidation was unset or had an update that changed the liquidation date to something other than the next two week cycle it would disappear from the report.
Not official notice. Courtesy notices of liquidation are not the official notice of liquidation. The courtesy notice has no legal effect and does not trigger the protest filing period.
(For liquidations after September 30, CBP has discontinued mailing paper courtesy notices of liquidation for entry summaries filed via the Automated Broker Interface (ABI). This means that paper courtesy notices will not be sent to importers of record that do not file their own entries.
Importers of record with an ACE Portal Account however, will be able to monitor the liquidation of their entries by using the AM 100 report. Information on applying for an ACE Portal account, which is free of charge, is available here.
Note that electronic courtesy notices will continue to be sent to ABI filers who electronically file entry summaries in ABI. In addition, importers of record filing a paper formal entry with CBP will continue to receive a mailed courtesy notice.
(See CSMS #11-000225, Clarification on the Elimination of the Courtesy Notice of Liquidation, for further information on the recently published Federal Register Notice announcing the discontinuation of mailed paper courtesy notices of liquidation for entry summaries filed via ABI.)
CBP attachment to CSMS #11-000226 detailing how to utilize new report available here.
CBP CSMS #11-000227 (09/29/11) stating AM-100 reports can now be run, available here. (See ITT's Online Archives 11092719 for BP summary that the trade was not to run AM-100 reports until CBP's deployment process was finished.)