CBP will end its ACE pilot for data required by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on Oct. 11, CBP said in a notice (here). "This notice announces that CBP has determined that ACE is fully capable of accepting electronic entries transmitted to ACE with the [Partner Government Agency] Message Set data required for FSIS-regulated meat, poultry, and egg products," CBP said. "The electronic transmission of this data to ACE expedites delivery of this data to FSIS, thereby providing the data to FSIS before the products arrive for inspection." CBP began the pilot in 2013 (see 13121219).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP will move the mandatory use date to Oct. 29 for several post-release processes in ACE, including reconciliation and drawback, according to a letter from CBP sent to Trade Support Network leadership and posted by CustomsNow (here). A CBP spokeswoman confirmed the contents of the letter and said the agency's website would be updated soon. The change follows a request from the Trade Support Network asking for more time to prepare for drawback and reconciliation in ACE (see 1608310049). "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," the letter said. "This adjustment affects the mandatory filing of liquidation, drawback, reconciliation, duty deferral, collections, statements, and automated surety interface," it said.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
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CBP issued a guidance that lists several possible shipping vessel diversion scenarios related to Hanjin Shipping's bankruptcy filing (here). The agency provided the list "in anticipation of possible disruptions due to Hanjin Shipping vessels or cargo arriving to U.S. ports," it said in a Sept. 2 CSMS message (here). Hanjin's bankruptcy filing (see 1609020011) continues to be a source of uncertainty among industry for goods currently being handled by Hanjin and future shipping rates. The South Korean company filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection under Chapter 15 on Sept. 2 and is expected to take similar steps in other countries soon, The Wall Street Journal reported (here).
CBP posted an updated version of its ACE Entry Summary Business Rules and Process document, dated Sept. 1 (here). "The updated version of the document includes a rewritten Liquidation section, a revised and expanded Protest section, and minor edits to the Drawback section (more updates to this section will be coming soon)," CBP said in a CSMS message (here).
CBP posted a new reconciliation handbook for ACE (here) ahead of the Oct. 1 switch from the Automated Commercial System. This guide represents an updated version of the ACS Reconciliation Prototype Guide, often called the reconciliation handbook, it said in a CSS message (here). CBP recently said it expects the coming changes to the reconciliation program to streamline the process (see 1608190031).
CBP released a list of "high level changes for processing liquidations "in ACE (here). An interim final rule on the addition of liquidation capabilities in ACE will be released ahead of the Oct. 1 deployment (see 1608170055), it said. Among the changes are an electronic replacement for paper liquidation bulletins, more frequent liquidation processing and temporary importation under bond extension filing through ACE.
The National Marine Fisheries Service is working on screening and targeting criteria to determine what entries subject to new International Fisheries Trade Permit (IFTP) and ACE filing requirements it will select for manual review, said Christopher Rogers, assistant director of the international fisheries division of the NMFS Office of International Affairs and Seafood Inspection, during a Sept. 1 webinar. Given the large number of entries the agency will have to review once ACE filing becomes mandatory for NMFS data on Sept. 20, the agency will rely on the criteria to decide whether to review entries before or after the shipment is released, he said.