CBP Issues General Notice on Deployment of ACE/NCAP Test of Automated Truck Manifest in Alaska
According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection general notice, the final group, or cluster, of ports to be deployed for the Automated Commercial Environment/National Customs Automation Program test of the transmission of automated truck manifest data for truck carrier accounts1 will be the land border ports of Alcan, Dalton Cache, and Skagway in the state of Alaska.
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CBP expected these ports to be fully deployed for testing no earlier than August 30, 2007.
CBP notes that this group of ports is the last remaining group, nationwide, to be tested; the ACE truck manifest test will be complete once it is effectuated in Alaska.
e-Manifest: Truck Not Yet Mandated for Advance Cargo Information Purposes at These Ports
ACE e-Manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes is not yet mandated for these ports and will only become mandatory 90 days after notice is published in the Federal Register. Once mandatory, e-Manifest: Truck enforcement is expected to be phased in.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 02/14/07 news, 07021410, for BP summary of CBP's newsletter discussing mandatory e-Manifest, which states, among other things, that 90 days notice is required.)
All Other Previously Announced Requirements/Aspects of Test Continue to Apply
CBP states that all requirements and aspects of this ACE/NCAP test, as set forth in its September 2004 notice announcing the test and as modified by its March 2005 notice clarifying that all relevant data elements, except marks and numbers, are required to be submitted in the automated truck manifest submission, continue to apply.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 09/14/04 and 09/15/04 news, 04091410 and 04091515, for BP summaries of the September 2004 notice announcing the NCAP test. See ITT's Online Archives or 03/22/05 news, 05032205, for BP summary of the March 2005 notice modifying the test.)
(CBP has previously stated that this NCAP test allows participating truck carrier accounts to transmit electronic manifest data in ACE (including advance cargo information as required by Section 343 of the Trade Act of 2002, as amended by the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 (MTSA)). CBP has also previously stated that truck carrier accounts that participate in this test have the ability to electronically transmit truck manifest data and obtain release of their cargo, crew, conveyances, and equipment via the ACE Secure Data Portal or electronic data interchange (EDI) messaging.)
(See ITT's Online Archives or 09/14/07 news, 07091445 2, for BP summary announcing that CBP installed ACE truck processing capabilities at the port of Alcan, completing deployment to the Alaska land border.
See ITT's Online Archives or 07/19/07 news, 07071905, for the most recent BP summary announcing mandatory e-Manifest: Truck for a group of ports (Maine and Minnesota), which stated that Alaska ports were the only ports pending mandatory implementation of e-Manifest: Truck for advance cargo information purposes.)
1CBP also refers to this NCAP test as ACE Release 4 (Truck Manifest). CBP also uses the terms "ACE Truck Manifest" and "e-Manifest: Truck(s)."
CBP contact- James Swanson james.d.swanson@dhs.gov
CBP general notice (FR Pub 09/20/07) available at http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/pdf/E7-18527.pdf