CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:

CBP takes seriously the recent industry requests for revisions to the agency's timeline for requiring use of the Automatic Commercial Environment, an agency spokeswoman said. "CBP is aware of requests from the trade community to modify the approach to implementing mandatory filing of electronic entries and entry summaries in ACE on November 1, 2015," said the spokeswoman. "We are continually evaluating the readiness of all our stakeholders to ensure we implement ACE in a manner that makes sense and maintains momentum."

Industry pressure is growing for CBP to soften its deadline for Automated Commercial Environment entry summary and cargo release, as concerns grow over the readiness of the trade community for Nov. 1. On the heels of a letter from Trade Support Network leadership asking CBP to delay ACE requirements for some capabilities, other industry groups, including the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC), are considering their own courses of action, with some already coming out in favor of a delay.

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:

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CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:

Automated Commercial Environment capabilities for quota validation and mail, passenger and pipeline entry processing are now available in ACE as of July 11, said CBP in an update on ACE Deployment E (here). The agency also said ACE capabilities for remote location filing, a single pay option, entry type 52, and entry summary types 51 and 52 will be available in ACE on Aug. 8. The capabilities were originally scheduled for production on June 27, but CBP postponed parts of the deployment due to issues with ACE air manifest (see 1506290018).

CBP took several steps to help resolve some worries over industry's readiness for the planned Nov. 1 transition date to Automated Commercial Environment after an agency survey found concerns, CBP said. CBP outlined some of its recent work on the subject as part of a broad outline of the survey results (here). Industry leaders last month asked CBP to make some major changes to the ACE timeline because the risk of potential disruptions is too big (see 1506300016). Despite the worries, CBP found ACE users to be increasingly pleased with system operations, it said.

CBP will test several new features for Remote Location Filing as part of the agency's move toward required use of the Automated Commercial Environment electronic filing, CBP said in a notice (here). CBP will use the pilot to consider the reliability and viability of making more entry types eligible for RLF, it said. RLF allows for national permit holders to file an entry electronically away from where the goods are being entered.

CBP will begin a test of air cargo manifest filing for exports within the Automated Commercial Environment, the agency said in a notice (here). The voluntary test will require participants to submit export data electronically at least four hours before loading, the agency said. Currently, the complete manifest is required on paper CBP Form 7509 after departure, said CBP. The pilot will begin on Aug. 10 and is scheduled to last for two years, said CBP.