CBP To Tighten Enforcement on NHTSA Entries in ACE
CBP will soon begin sending more rejects to filers for errors on ACE entries with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data, CBP said in a message sent June 2 (here). Since NHTSA began its ACE pilot in August 2015, CBP…
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had been rejecting only about one-third of entries that violated NHTSA business rules, and accepting sending warning messages for the other two-thirds of problematic NHTSA entries, CBP said. NHTSA has now requested that CBP accept and issue warnings for only one-third of entries in violation of its business rules, and reject the other two-thirds. As a result, CBP will begin sending rejects for types of errors that had previously been accepted with a warning message. “For example, vehicle identification number errors and incorrect tire or glazing numbers will continue to be warnings while entries that are missing the required HS-7 declarations will be rejected,” CBP said. The change will be deployed in the ACE certification testing environment on June 13, and the live production environment on June 25, CBP said.