CBP has issued the June 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update, which notes that the Participating Government Agency (PGA) Message Set has been made available; Post Summary Correction (PSC) functionality was deployed on June 4 and the first PSC was successfully filed on June 14; and CBP's announcement that it would use "ckg" for all dairy items subject to the new dairy product fee assessment that CBP will begin to collect on August 1, 2011.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted “background materials” from the June 8, 2011 Trade Leadership Council (TLC) conference that was held in New York. The TLC consists of ACE trade ambassadors and trade co-chairs of the Trade Support Network (TSN) committees.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted revised version of its ACE e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail (M1) guidelines. According to a CSMS message, the changes made are minor and include further clarification to some text contained within a few data elements, as well as updates to the Appendices.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a memorandum on the administration of a 19 USC 1520(d), post-importation preference claim that includes a classification change. CBP is issuing this memo in the interest of informed compliance and processing uniformity.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a general notice announcing a modification to its Post-Entry Amendment (PEA) Processing test¹, which allows the amendment of entry summaries prior to liquidation. Effective September 22, 2011, the test is being modified to reflect that PEA procedures will no longer be accepted for entry summaries filed in the ACE. In addition, this notice states that for any PEA which results in antidumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD) cash deposits due (or bond, if allowed), such deposits or bond are due with the submission of the PEA.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a general notice that sources state gives a "formal start date" to the National Customs Automation Program test that allows importers to use the Automated Broker Interface (ABI) to file post-summary corrections of certain pre-liquidation ACE entry summaries (ESAR IV). While CBP deployed this PSC functionality in ACE for trade participants on June 4, the formal commencement date is July 25, 2011.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message stating that the following ACE ABI CATAIR documents have been updated:

CBP has posted an updated version of its fact sheet on the current status of ACE. Among other things, the fact sheet states that there are currently over 18,731 ACE trade user accounts and 38 approved entities have been authorized to file ACE entry summaries. The fact sheet also noted the release of the PGA Message Set and the June 4, 2011 deployment of Post Summary Correction functionality. CBP also posted a document providing a timeline of trade functionality that has/will be delivered in ACE.