On May 22, 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) enhancements for Fiscal Year 2018.
CBP received an additional $30 million in appropriations for enabling certain ACE enhancements. CBP will focus on the following areas of interest:
- Section 321/Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act enabling automation;
- Electronic CBP Form 5106;
- Modernizing Foreign Trade Zone (e214) process in ACE;
- Creation of Unique Identifiers for Centers of Excellence and Expertise;
- Transitioning to Broker National Permit;
- Modernizing vessel management, via Vessel Agent Account Type;
- Streamlining and modernizing truck processing, via a non-intrusive inspection program;
- Updating Generalized System of Preferences (GSP);
- Manifest update to include shipper phone number;
- Electronic vessel manifest confidentiality request.
CBP will have additional information on the development and deployment of the ACE enhancements at a later point.
The CBP announcement may be found here:
