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Updated List of ACE & Other System Changes Scheduled for Deployment

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE Workplan Schedule," which lists the changes and/or fixes to the Automated Commercial Environment (and other systems it interfaces with) scheduled for deployment from April 25 - June 27, 2009.

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CBP has previously stated that this list contains only those changes and/or fixes that impact the trade community.

This list of changes contains either the change request (CR) code, or the problem tracking report (PTR) code, as well an explanation of the change:

Proposed Deployment Date of June 27, 2009
PTR 2755Corrects problem with TAO creating new users in the ACE portal and receiving error message \"grant minimum access.\"
PTR 34700Resolve data sync problems between ACE and GES.
PTR 27053Prevent shipment release for PAPS shipments with entries not on file.

1See ITT's Online Archives or 06/02/09 news, 09060205, for BP summary of CBP saying it will not yet reject ACE e-Manifests submitted without WHTI document numbers. See ITT's Online Archives or 01/23/09 news, 09012330 9, for BP summary of CBP announcing the WHTI EDI document code changes.

Updated ACE Workplan Schedule (posted 06/15/09) available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/automated/modernization/ace_workplan.ctt/ace_workplan.doc