CBP Issues PMS Application Procedures for non-Portal Accounts for Importers and C-TPAT Certified Importers Who Hold Portal Accounts
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has posted to its Web site (and issued as an administrative message) a document entitled "Periodic Monthly Statement Application Procedures for non-Portal Accounts and C-TPAT Certified Partners Who Hold Portal Accounts."
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Much of the information regarding the Periodic Monthly Statement (PMS) application procedures for non-Portal Accounts is similar to the information in a recent CBP administrative message entitled: "Creation of Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) non-Portal Accounts for Importers." However, the new PMS application procedures document is simplified and on occasion has additional information and different wording.
As an example of different wording, the PMS application procedures document states that the importer's request to participate is submitted via a paper ACE 5106, while CBP's administrative message on creating non-Portal Accounts states that IR numbers are supplied by the importer through the creation of a 5106, Importer ID Input Record. CBP's Federal Register notice on this point states that in order to participate as a non-Portal Account, a party must submit to its broker a CBP Form 5106, Notification of Importer's Number or Notice of Change of Name or Address, with accurate information.
Examples of additional information in the applications procedure document include adding a fax number for the broker's transmission of this 5106 information and form to CBP, as an alternative to sending an email and scanned image, as well as detailing the PMS application procedures for C-TPAT certified importers who hold Portal Accounts.
In short, those importers interested in applying for PMS, and their brokers, should consult both the administrative message on creating non-Portal Accounts for importers, this web posting on PMS application procedures, as well as the original Federal Register notice where CBP announced that it was removing the requirement that importers first establish ACE Portal Accounts in order to deposit estimated duties and fees as part of PMS.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 10/27/05 news, 05102705 for BP summary of CBP's administrative message on how to create ACE non-Portal Accounts for importers. See ITT's Online Archives or 10/25/05 news, 05102505 for BP summary of CBP's Federal Register notice on importers being no longer required to have ACE Portal Accounts for PMS, allowing C-TPAT certified importers to be automatically eligible, etc.)
CBP Web Posting on application procedures (posting date of 10/26/05), available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/ace_app_info/pms_app_procedures.ctt/pms_app_procedures.pdf , and its administrative message version, Adm: 05-1254 (dated 10/27/05), available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2005/2005-1254.ADM
Earlier CBP Adm: 05-1233 (dated 10/25/05) on the creation of ACE non-portal accounts for importers, available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2005/2005-1233.ADM
CBP Federal Register notice (FR Pub 10/24/05) available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/pdf/05-21165.pdf