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CBP Updates Its Fact Sheet on ESAR At-a-Glance

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued an updated version of its fact sheet on ACE Entry Summary, Accounts, and Revenue (ESAR) at-a-glance, which provides information on new and future ACE ESAR portal features. Such features reduce paper and streamline processes for CBP and the trade community etc.

New ESAR Features Will Affect Nearly All CBP Cargo Processes

CBP states that each development phase and implementation of ACE ESAR capabilities improves trade processing automation, enhances border security and fosters the U.S.' economic security through the facilitation of lawful international trade. New ESAR features will enable CBP and its trade partners to more efficiently interact electronically. These enhanced account capabilities will bring dramatic, comprehensive change to the way CBP conducts business, affecting nearly all CBP cargo processes.

(CBP has taken the first steps toward implementing the updated automated entry summary process with the deployment of initial entry summary filing capabilities to all ports in June 2009 for type 01 and 11 entries. In February 2010, CBP deployed the ACE ESAR III capabilities for antidumping and countervailing (AD/CV, type 03) entries.)

Current ACE ESAR Features Include AD/CV Functionality, PMS, Etc.

Current ACE ESAR features include the following:

Future ACE ESAR Features to Include PSCs, Improved Reconciliation Flags, Etc.

Future ACE capabilities will redefine and increasingly automate the way CBP conducts business, providing account holders and CBP personnel flexibility to process cargo quickly and securely through ACE. Future ACE ESAR features include the following:

(See ITT's Online Archives or 05/16/11 news, 11051613, for BP summary of CBP's most recently updated ACE fact sheets.

See ITT's Online Archives or 05/20/11 news, 11051979, for BP summary of CBP guidance on the June 4, 2011 deployment date for PSC functionality.

See ITT's Online Archives or 02/16/10 news, 10021605, for BP summary of CBP’s deployment of ACE ESAR III capabilities for AD/CV entries, etc.)