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The Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) is the CBP's electronic system through which the international trade community reports imports and exports and the government determines admissibility.

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CBP to Enforce Rules Against Single Entries in ACE for Cargo on Multiple Trains
March 25, 2016 |Customs

CBP will begin to enforce existing regulations that prohibit single entries for cargo on separate trains, said CBP in a CSMS message (here). While the Automated Commercial Service "did not enforce this regulatory requirement," ACE Cargo Release "was coded to enforce this, and consequently any entry that has bills of lading from more than one importing conveyance will be rejected," the agency said. All cargo arriving on non-split conveyances may not be entered with cargo from another non-split conveyance, CBP said. "For CBP purposes, each train is a unique consist, and cargo from one such train may not be entered on the same entry with cargo from another such train (trains are not considered to be split [Bills of Lading] under the regulations)." Split air waybills will continue to be processed, CBP said.

CBP Clarifies Transition Procedures for March 31 ACE Deadline
March 25, 2016 |Top News

With its first ACE mandatory use date around the corner, CBP clarified its transition plans for new filing requirements that take effect March 31 (here). Beginning on that date, filing all entry summaries for entry types 01, 03, 11, 23, 51 and 52, as well as all entries and entry summaries of those entry types with Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Lacey Act or National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Partner Government Agency data (and no other PGA data) must be filed in ACE (see 1602080042). Any filers submitting entries or entry summaries required in ACE on March 31 through the legacy Automated Commercial System “will be notified to cease and desist,” said CBP (here). If the filer continues to file in ACS in violation of the March 31 deadline, “CBP will avail itself of any enforcement actions available,” it said.

Topics:Lacey Act, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
Census Half Finished with Closing Out Legacy AESDirect Users
March 24, 2016 by Brian Bradley|Top News

The Census Bureau is halfway through closing filers out of the legacy AESDirect system as it prepares to close the system down on April 25, Census AESDirect liaison Theresa Gordon said during a March 23 meeting of the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee (RPTAC). Filers have submitted over 542,000 accepted shipments in ACE AESDirect since its November rollout, a 35 percent increase from the 400,000 shipments logged as of March 11 (see 1603110049). Gordon added that ACE AESDirect comprises more than 203,000 profiles, 10,030 filers, and 20,000 individual users, and has more than 84,000 stored templates. Census will review whether to impose a limit on templates as the system ramps up toward full usage, she said.

FDA to Make Drug API Data Elements Optional in ACE
March 24, 2016 by Brian Feito|Top News

The Food and Drug Administration’s recent move to relax certain ACE data element requirements includes a more permanent change that will make filing of certain active pharmaceutical ingredient data optional, said FDA officials during a March 23 webinar. While the agency will only temporarily allow filing of a “UNK” code, indicating unknown, for intended use, brand name and device listing number data elements beginning April 5 (see 1603210028), the shift of the active ingredient producer data element from mandatory to optional will remain in place “for the foreseeable future,” said Sandra Abbott, director of FDA’s Division of Compliance Systems.

Line Level Consignee Number Temporarily Allowed for Some ACE Entry Summaries
March 23, 2016 |Customs

CBP will allow the header level consignee number at the line level for "ACE entry summary input transaction[s] (App ID = AE)" in some cases, the agency said in a CSMS message (here). Currently, "a formal entry covering one or many sales with an ACE entry summary over $2,500 in value will require the input of valid party information (EIN number) at the line level," said CBP. "Because the sold to party information is not always known or provided at the line level to the filer," the header level consignee number can be used in some situations. When "the formal ACE entry summary is covering multiple sales, with some individual sales less than $2,500 and the EIN number of the sold to party type at the line level is not known or not provided to the filer, the header level consignee number should be transmitted in the ACE AE at that line level" said CBP. Also, "non-resident consignee (CBP assigned) numbers are also acceptable to be used in this manner and reported at the line level." CBP said this solution is temporary and it will address "name and address functionality" once it "can be prioritized for development.&qrduo;