New ACE Reports Tool Temporarily Disabled (Old Reports Tool is Completely Functional)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that the new Automated Commercial Environment reports tool has been temporarily disabled.
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(In April 2007 CBP announced the availability of this new ACE reports tool, which makes generating reports within ACE faster and easier, and provides more options for viewing, tracking, and analyzing trade account data. Among other things, CBP stated that the new ACE reports tool allows account holders to customize reports, schedule reports, etc. A CBP official at the National Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA) Annual Conference added that the new ACE reports tool allows account holders to see the discrepancies that CBP has detected from the importer and/or broker during cargo exams, entry summary reviews, etc.)
ACE Account Holders Can Still Use Old Reports Tool
ACE account holders will not be able to access or run account management reports in the new tool; however, the old ACE reports tool is completely functional and all reports should be run from this tool until the new reports tool becomes operational again.
(CBP previously stated that for five months after the deployment of the new ACE reports tool, both the old and new reports tools would be available while users made the transition. CBP officials add that the old ACE reports tool may be around for the remainder of 2007, as CBP is still adding functionality to the new reports tool and tweaking the tool until it is "up to speed" with the old reports tool.)
When the new ACE reports tool becomes operational again, CBP will issue notice via a posting to "ACE News."
For more information on the new ACE reports tool, interested parties should go to CBP's ACE Web-based training (http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/about/modernization/), which includes a section entitled "ACE Reports for the Trade Community."
(See ITT's Online Archives or 04/24/07 news, 07042405, for BP summary of CBP's announcement of the new ACE reports tool.)
CBP ABI message (Adm: 07-0111, dated 05/07/07) available at http://www.brokerpower.com/cgi-bin/adminsearch/admmsg.view.pl?article=2007/2007-0111.ADM