U.S. Customs and Border Protection said April 20, 2012, regular ACE Maintenance Window (Saturday 2300 EDT - Sunday 0500 EDT) may be extended on Sunday, April 22, 2012. The extended window was to be scheduled from Sunday 0500 EDT -- 0730 EDT (7:30am).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said April 21, 2012, that a data load has completed that affected all Entry Summary reports, all Declaration reports (under the Account Management folder), and AD-8027 (Trade Aged Liquidation ADCVD Entry Summary Report). These reports now contain the most up-to-date data. CBP said April 20, 2012 that some of those ACE Reports did not contain the most up to date data.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection's ACEopedia for July 2012 adds additional information on the process improvements created by ACE to date. A new listing of those improvements is the largest change from the previous ACEopedia.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said April 20, 2012, that some ACE Reports do not contain the most up to date data. The affected reports include: all Entry Summary reports, all Declaration reports (under the Account Management folder), and AD-8027 (Trade Aged Liquidation ADCVD Entry Summary Report). The data load is continuing to run and CBP anticipates reports to be up to date by April 21, 2012 at 0800 EDT (8am). A subsequent message will be distributed when the data load is complete.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the maintenance activity scheduled in the ACE extended maintenance window (starting Sunday April 15, 2012 at 0500 EDT) has been completed.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported two incidents that occurred in ACE Production on the morning of April 13, 2012
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
A recently released U.S. Customs and Border Protection February 23 Implementation Guide for Messaging Interface between International Trade Data System Trade Partners and the CBP Document Image System (DIS) for importers and brokers provides extensive technical details on the messaging processes. The document, numbered ITDS-DIS-IG-1.2.6, says For Official Use Only. CBP recently began the first phase of DIS testing for Importers and Brokers using ACE.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted a reminder of the Sept. 29, 2012, effective date for required use of ACE e-Manifest for advance Rail and Sea cargo information and automated broker interface in-bond transactions. As of April 6, 1,872 importers, brokers or software providers have finished certification testing, 705 are currently testing, and 322 have moved to ACE production, according to the reminder. Importers, brokers and software providers that aren't among those groups and file advance rail and sea cargo information or ABI in-bond transactions should contact their client representative, the reminder said.