CBP Updates ACE Entry Summary Business Rules and Processes Document for Trade

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version (Version 2.2) of its Automated Commercial Environment entry summary business rules and process document for the trade. Also available is an earlier version (2.1) of this document.

According to CBP, this document is subject to updating over time, as the different entry summary types and associated downstream processing migrate from the Automated Commercial System to ACE.

System Edits, Entry Summary Record Creation, and Other Topics

CBP’s most recent version of the ACE entry summary business rules and process document (Version 2.2) provides details on the following¹:

• System Edits and Validations
• Entry Summary Record Creation in ACE
• Entry Summary Cancellation
• Methods of Response to System Generated Notification
• Single Transaction Bond
• Electronic Invoice Processing in ACE
• Entry Summary Team Review
• Blanket Declaration Records in the ACE Portal
• Post Entry Amendment for ACE Entry Summaries
• AD/CVD Case Management /Messages
• Liquidation of ACE Entry Summaries
• ACE Entry Summaries Flagged for Reconciliation
• Protest Filing for ACE Entry Summaries
• ACE Policy Document Updates

Change for Census Warning Sheets

According to CBP, Version 2.2 reflects a change to indicate that CBP will not accept paper Census warning sheets for ACE entry summaries.

Prior Version Had Been Updated for ESAR A.2.3.1a and Other Changes

CBP’s previous Version 2.1 reflected the deployment (on February 14, 2010) of ACE Entry, Summary, Account, and Revenue (ESAR) Release A2.3.1a. It had new information on the functionality specific to the filing and processing of antidumping and countervailing, type 03, entry summaries and AD/CVD case information, AD/CVD message, and AD/CVD inquiries. ACE is the system of record for AD/CVD cases, messages, and inquiries. In addition, Version 2.1 reflected the addition of a section on single transaction bonds, the expansion of various existing information, etc.

¹Version 2.2 also makes various clarifying and other changes to:

• Section 2 - Entry Summary Record is Created in ACE
• Section 3 - Entry Summary Cancellation
• Section 4 - Methods of response to system generated notification
• Section 6 - Electronic Invoice Processing in ACE
• Section 7 - Entry Summary Team Review
• Section 10 - AD/CVD Case Management Messages
• Section 12 - ACE Entry Summaries Flagged for Reconciliation

(See ITT’s Online Archives or 04/17/09 news, 09041705, for BP summary of CBP’s version 1.0 (posted April 6, 2009).)

Version 2.1 available by emailing documents@brokerpower.com.

(Version 2.2, posted 06/29/10)