On November 8, 2017, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced in a Federal Register Notice that as of December 9, 2017, the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) will be the only electronic data interchange (EDI) system to process duty statements. CBP states in the Notice that as of that date, the agency will no longer authorize the Automated Commercial System (ACS) for processing statements, with the exception of reconciliation entries.
Over the past several years, CBP has developed ACE to replace ACS as the CBP-authorized EDI system in several phases. The December transition will make ACE “the sole CBP-authorized EDI system for generating, transmitting and updating daily and monthly statements for all entries except reconciliation (type 09) entries, and that as of that date, ACS will be decommissioned for such purposes.”
CBP has further stated that, “Until reconciliation entries are filed in ACE, statements for reconciliation entries will continue to be generated, transmitted and updated in ACS.” Once all statements are filed in ACE, CBP will no longer authorize ACS as an EDI system for those purposes.
The Federal Register Notice can be located here:
