CBP will give customs brokers nearly two more months to comply with a new requirement to submit lists of all current employees to CBP via the ACE Portal, the agency said in a CSMS message. Brokers will now have until April 14 to comply with the requirement from the recent customs broker modernization final rule (see 2210170071). The deadline had previously been Feb. 17 (see 2212190056).

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:​

CBP deployed new capabilities for updating customs broker employee lists to its modernized ACE Portal on Feb. 2, CBP said in a CSMS message. New functionalities include an individual licensed broker indicator for broker employees, as well as the capability to “bulk upload” up to 200 employees at a time, instead of the previous 50. A “pending” status will be displayed to show the bulk upload is in progress. A new column on the broker employee list will now display an employee end date, and the portal will now check for duplicate Social Security numbers when creating an employee record, preventing the creation of new records with duplicate SSNs, CBP said. Brokers are now required to report all employees by Feb. 17 (see 2212190056).

A field will be available in the ACE Automated Broker Interface for customs brokers and other filers to transmit the Chinese postal code once the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Region Alert postal code requirement takes effect March 18, CBP’s Katie Woodson said during the agency’s bi-weekly ACE call. For China-origin entries after March 18, where the Chinese manufacturer ID is transmitted but the name and address of the manufacturer does not include the postal code, brokers and filers “will have the ability to input [that] information, and they can then input the postal code field that's missing,” Woodson said.

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:​

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:​

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:​

CBP released an updated ACE Development and Deployment Schedule on Jan. 30, making changes to its description of an upcoming requirement for filers to submit a Chinese postal code on the cargo release for goods of Chinese origin. The entry for the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Region Alert says the “specific applications impacted” by the new requirement will be the “Cargo Release (SE) application -- only for the Manufacturer (MF) party and only when the country is reported as the People’s Republic of China (CN) in the SE36 and/or SE56 record,” as well as the “Manufacturer Identification Code ($I) application -- when creating or updating a Manufacturer Identification Code with a city located in the People’s Republic of China (CN).” CBP also now says the “enhancement will provide the ability to update an existing MID with a postal code.” The anticipated deployment date remains March 18.

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:​

Importers of non-textile goods that are of Chinese origin but sourced from a seller in another country may not have to transmit the Chinese postal code as will be required on March 18 (see 2212210041) under a new ACE Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act “Region Alert,” according to a CBP official speaking during a webinar hosted by the agency Jan. 26.