900 Continuous Bond Records Did Not Transfer to ACE As Part of ESAR A1 Implementation
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI administrative message announcing that approximately 900 continuous bond records did not transfer to the Automated Commercial Environment as part of the September 9th implementation of Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) A1.
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(As part of the implementation of A1, valid continuous bond records were transferred from the Automated Commercial System (ACS) to ACE.)
900 Bond Records Not Transferred as They Did Not Pass Baseline ACE Edits
Continuous bond records were required to pass certain edits in order to successfully migrate to ACE. These edits (some of which did not exist in ACS) reflect current CBP regulations, directives, and policy.
CBP states that it has learned that approximately 900 valid, continuous bond records could not be transferred to ACE because of a failure to pass the baseline ACE edits.
900 Bonds Remain Operational, Cannot be Located via ABI Bond Query
CBP is advising the trade community that these 900 bonds remain fully operational, and may be used for all entry transactions normally covered by an activity code 1 continuous bond.
However, as a result of the inability to move these records into ACE, as of September 10, 2007 these bonds cannot be located via the traditional ABI bond query. If an ABI bond query is made on one of these 900 bonds, the response will indicate that there is "no bond on file."
Revenue Division to Issue Letters on Replacing Such Bonds
The Revenue Division, Office of Finance will issue letters within the next 90 days to the principals on these 900 impacted bonds advising them of this issue. Those letters will also require that the impacted continuous bond be terminated and replaced with a new bond.
If applicable, the Revenue Division will also request an increase in the bond liability amount. Until these bonds are terminated and replaced, they will remain fully functional and available for use by the parties listed on the bond.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 09/20/07 news, 07092005, for most recent BP update on the deployment of ESAR A1.
See ITT's Online Archives or 08/22/07 news, 07082210, for BP summary announcing that bond riders and termination requests for all continuous bonds are now processed by CBP's Revenue Division.
See ITT's Online Archives or 08/09/07 news, 07080920, for BP summary of CBP officials discussing the deployment of A1 at the ACE Exchange VI conference, who stated that once A1 is deployed, all continuous bonds will be input into ACE by the Revenue Division, and ACE will become the system of record for continuous bonds.)
CBP Revenue Division contact- Casey Horn (317) 614-4484
CBP ABI message (Adm: 07-0222, dated 10/04/07) available at http://www.brokerpower.com/admmsgs/2007/07-0222.html