CBP Official Says ACE M1 Pilot Deployment to Begin at 3 Ports Soon
During the September 22-23, 2011 Trade Support Network plenary meeting in Arlington, VA, U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Director of Cargo Automation Coordination stated that e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail (M1) will be deployed in parallel with existing Automated Manifest System (AMS) processing. Additionally, new M1 User Screens will be deployed to three pilot ports within the next few weeks.
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M1 User Screens to be Deployed to Pilot Ports in MD, NY, and TX
The CBP Director stated that M1 is fully functional but will have limited users. Nine trade partners are certified to transmit and are being prepared for this transition within the next weeks.
New M1 User Screens will be deployed to three ports, Baltimore, MD, Buffalo, NY, and Brownsville, TX, within the next few weeks. Training and deployment activities have begun. Additional port deployments will occur once the pilot ports are successful. The deployment strategy involves supported deployment to direct arrival ports first.
Limited Deployment Pilot Expected to be Complete in Jan 2012, Transition to ACE Six Mos Later
The M1 pilot with limited deployment is expected to complete in January 2012 with CBP full acceptance of the system. CBP will then publish a Federal Register announcing that ACE will be the only CBP approved electronic data interchange (EDI) through which rail and sea manifests may be transmitted.
The notice will also announce a six-month time frame for the transition to ACE and the decommissioning of the AMS for rail and sea manifests.
(See ITT's Online Archives 11101753 for earlier summary.)
TSN meeting presentations posted to date, including a high level presentation on ACE Automated Export Processing, as well as presentations on Post Summary Correction (PSC), are available here.