CBP Posts Oct 2011 Status Update on ACE Projects
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted its October 2011 update on its progress with the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). CBP discusses deployed ACE capabilities and provides status updates of various ACE projects, such as Document Image System (DIS), cargo release, e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1), etc. With this update, CBP states that it plans to discontinue dissemination of the ISF reports via email as of December 31, 2011. In addition, CBP states that the technology to support the collection of the PGA Message Set, which was targeted for release in October 2011, will be pushed out to November 2011 due to external factors.