Report Available on the 24 High Priority Edits CBP Has Agreed to Carry Over to ACE
In May 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials attending the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Related Homeland Security Functions (COAC) announced that CBP would carry over into the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) 24 edits which the Trade Support Network had asked CBP to keep.
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A report on these 24 edits has now been posted to the Automated Commercial Environment Transition Forum Web site.
(In 2007, CBP proposed that 63 current Automated Commercial System (ACS) edits specific to the commercial preparation of the Entry Summary not be carried over into ACE. The TSN reviewed and evaluated CBP's proposal and responded with 24 edits that TSN members believed were critical to keep. CBP's proposal was originally called "Edit Lite," but is now referred to as '"Edit Modification.")
List of 24 ACS Edits to be Retained
The report lists the following 24 ACS edits which have been characterized by the TSN as high priority and which will be carried over from ACS into ACE at some future date:
Manual Surcharge Entry Type Restriction
Informal Entry/Value of Goods Restrictions
Trade Agreement to Article Validation
Computed Article Duty to Total Article Estimated Duty Validation
Non-Quota Entry Type Quota Restriction Validation
IR Tax Mandatory Reporting Validation
Computed IR Tax to Estimated IR Tax Validation
Formal Merchandise Processing Fee (MPF) Free Reporting Restriction
Formal MPF Mandatory Reporting Validation
Computed Formal MPF to Reported Formal MPF Validation
Harbor Maintenance Fee (HMF) MOT Reporting Restriction
HMF Set Component Reporting Restriction
HMF Mandatory Reporting Validations
Computed HMF to Estimated HMF Validation
Other Fee Mandatory Reporting Validation
Cotton Fee Reporting Exemption Validation
Organic' Product Fee Reporting Exemption Validation
Informal Article Combination Restriction
Dutiable Mail Fee Reporting Requirements & Restrictions
Informal MPF Fee Reporting Requirements & Restrictions
Formal MPF Total Fee Amount Validation
HMF Total Calculated Amount Validation
Other Fee Total Computed Amount Validation
Grand Total Calculated Duty Validation
In May 2008, CBP sources stated that these edits would not be included in ACE ESAR A2.2 Drop, but would likely be incorporated into ACE sometime before entry summary filing in ACE becomes mandatory (i.e., when all entry types can be submitted in ACE and sufficient trade testing is completed).
Report Provides Explanation of Edits, Trade's Evaluation of Edits, Etc.
For each of the ACS edits listed above, the report provides an explanation of the validation, the resulting ACS error message, and the trade's evaluation of why the edit is high priority.
A legend explaining the evaluation reason codes for the report has also been posted to the ACE Transition Forum Web site.
1The edits are referred to as validations in the report.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 05/14/08 news, 08051405, for BP summary on CBP's COAC meeting announcement to carry over the 24 high priority edits.
See ITT's Online Archives or 05/02/08 news, 08050205, for BP summary of a letter sent by the TSN to CBP regarding Edit Modification.
See ITT's Online Archives or 05/02/08 news, 08050210, for BP summary of a CBP Edit Modification Update at a Baltimore, MD ACE Seminar.
See ITT's Online Archives or 02/26/08 news, 08022605, for BP summary of TSN trade members saying that CBP had scaled-back its Edit-Lite proposal.
See ITT's Online Archives or 10/05/07 news, 07100505, for BP summary of the TSN Transition Committee responding to CBP's proposal to have minimal edits in ACE.
See ITT's Online Archives or 05/01/08 news, 08050105, for BP summary of CBP's quarterly report to Congress on ACE, which briefly discusses Edit Modification.)
Report (dated 06/26/08) available at http://www.acetransition.net/images/Entry_Summary_Edit_Validations_Not_in_A2_2_Scope.pdf.
Report legend available at http://www.acetransition.net/images/Validations_not_in_2.2_Legend.pdf.pdf.