Trade Testing for e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail (M1) to Begin No Sooner than September 2008
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message announcing that trade testing for ACE (Automated Commercial Environment) release M1 (e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail for advance cargo information purposes) will begin no sooner than September 2008.
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Trade Testing of M1 to Use Current Data Formats
CBP notes that the testing will be done using the current data formats, which are (1) the CAMIR-Intermodal (Customs Automated Manifest Interface Requirements-Intermodal) (Amendment 13) or ANSI X.12 (version 4010) for ocean manifest and (2) the ANSI X.12 (version 4040 ) format for rail manifest.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 05/19/08 news, 08051925 2, for BP summary of CBP's CAMIR-Intermodal Amendment 13.)
M1 Scheduled for Deployment in October 2008
e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail is currently scheduled to be deployed in October 2008, and will be the first of the MMM1 (Multi Modal Manifest) releases to be deployed.
(See BP Note for the deployment schedule for the remainder of the MMM releases.)
Highlights of M1 Capabilities
CBP has previously stated that e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail capabilities (M1) will:
modernize existing rail and sea automated manifest capabilities and transition existing business rules and operational requirements into ACE
allow trade partners to make updates to container seal information without deleting and resubmitting the entire bill of lading
enable initiation and resending of manifest transactions 24 hours a day, seven days a week
provide enhanced visibility of cargo status through new shipment status advisory messages and more detailed hold notifications
extend the "broker download" feature to ocean and air carriers
1MMM will expand ACE to include all modes of transportation and provide a single, automated system for cargo control and release. MMM will also allow CBP to eventually phase out and replace the four separate manifest systems it currently uses.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 06/04/08 news, 08060415, for BP summary of CBP's most recent quarterly report to Congress on ACE, which covers MMM and e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail, etc.
See ITT's Online Archives or 05/19/08 news, 08051910, for BP summary of CBP's fact sheet on ACE MMM capabilities. See ITT's Online Archives or 02/25/08 news, 08022505, for BP summary of CBP's fact sheet on ACE e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail.
See ITT's Online Archives or 04/29/08 news, 08042935 1, for BP summary of certain sections of CBP's MMM Ocean X.12 Implementation Guide (Final Draft 6.3).)
CSMS 08-000102 (dated 06/10/08) available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17110&page=&srch_argv=&srchtype=&btype=&sortby=&sby
BP Note
The remainder of the MMM releases are scheduled to be deployed in the following time frames:
| 2nd Quarter 2009 | e-Manifest: Air and Conveyance Management System (M2.1) 0 |
| 4th Quarter 2009 | e-Manifest: Truck, also referred to as full MMM (M2.2) |
| 2nd Quarter 2010 | Cargo Release (M2.3) |
| 3rd Quarter 2011 | Exports and Mail Entry Writing System (M3) |
| 2nd Quarter 2012 | Bonded Facilities Control (M4) |
(These dates are from the most recent version of the ACE 101 PowerPoint presentation on the ACE development schedule.)