On October 4, 2017, the Federal Register published a notice for the National Maritime Fisheries Service (NMFS), announcing an Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) pilot program to test the electronic submission of data for fish products regulated under the Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP).
NMFS is partnering with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to use the Partner Government Agency (PGA) data set for the ACE portal. The announcement states that “CBP and NMFS have developed a plan to test and assess the electronic transmission of harvest and traceability data for fish imports of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) codes covered by the SIMP”
The pilot program will begin after October 1, 2017, and will continue until a Federal Register publication ends it. Furthermore, the electronic submission of data will become mandatory on January 1, 2018.
The Federal Register notice may be found here:
