U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI and Truck Manifest CSMS message announcing that on May 1, 2008 a change was deployed in the Automated Commercial Environment Truck Manifest system to correct an issue involving Free and Secure Trade (FAST) Commercial Driver Licenses (CDL). Updates for expired FAST CDLs will now update inactive CDL records in ACE.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a CSMS message stating that the requirements statements that are being circulated throughout the trade community are not the M2.1 Implementation Guidelines (ACE M2.1 AIR CAMIR Requirements/ACE M2.1 Implementation Guidelines). CBP states that these requirements sets are only the first high level set of documentation to be developed by CBP and are not intended to be used for programming,. According to CBP, these requirements were not intended for distribution. (CSMS 08-000071, dated 05/02/08, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17079&page=&srch_argv=08-000071&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby=.)
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's April 2008 Automated Commercial Environment Trade Account Owner (TAO) monthly update, new bond query functionality was available in ACE effective April 12, 2008.
On April 22, 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials gave an Automated Commercial Environment update at an event hosted by the Baltimore Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association.
The Trade Support Network's Leadership Council and its Entry and Transition Committees ("TSN") have sent a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection expressing its continuing concerns regarding CBP's plans to reduce the number of validations currently found in ACS when the ACE ESAR A2.2 drop is developed.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE on the Road" event schedule, which includes the following:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an ABI and Truck Manifest CSMS message stating that the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Certification Environment will be unavailablefrom 8:00 a.m. EDT on May 27, 2008 through 8:00 a.m. EDT on June 3, 2008. CBP asks that the trade plan their test activities accordingly. (CSMS 08-000066, dated 04/30/08, available at http://apps.cbp.gov/csms/viewmssg.asp?Recid=17074&page=&srch_argv=08-000066&srchtype=all&btype=&sortby=&sby)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted its report to Congress on the Automated Commercial Environment for the first quarter of fiscal year 2008 (October 1, 2007 - December 31, 2007). The report provides an update on ACE accomplishments, challenges, fiscal status, and upcoming program milestones.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its "ACE Workplan Schedule," which provides a list of the changes and/or fixes to the Automated Commercial Environment and other systems it interfaces with that were/are scheduled for deployment on April 12, 2008 and May 31, 2008.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a Truck Manifest CSMS message announcing that the Automated Commercial Environment is currently experiencing a nationwide problem with Truck Manifest 355 Messages and CUSRES for Truck Manifest.