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CBP Answers ACE Trade Account Owner Questions, Includes M1 ACE Transition Update

U.S. Customs and Border Protection released an April update for ACE Trade Account Owners. The update included reminders on the ongoing Document Imaging System (DIS) pilot and the Sept. 29, 2012, effective date for required use of ACE to file advance information for ocean and rail cargo to CBP.

See ITT's Online Archives 12032104 for summary of the DIS pilot. See ITT's Online Archives 12032821 for summary of the e-Manifest: Rail and Sea transition.

The update included several questions and answers about using the ACE portal:

As a broker, if we upload a blanket AD/CVD certificate through the ACE Portal for one of our importer clients and we don’t know if that client has their own ACE portal account, will ACE accept or reject the blanket certificate?

I modified AM 008 to include the Bill Refund Number, the Bill Refund Status Code and the Bill Refund Status Description. The Bill Refund Status Description reads Paid or Issued. How can I tell what is a refund and what is a bill?

Can DIS be used for all entry summaries to respond to a request from CBP for additional documents?

The update also included a status report on the M1 transition.

M1 On-boarding Status as of 4/19/12

UniverseIn ProductionCompleted TestingCurrently TestingWaiting to Begin Testing
611

1%

2

2%

11

18%

47

78%

OceanUniverseIn ProductionCompleted TestingCurrently TestingWaiting to Begin Testing
Transmitters977

7%

18

19%

10

10%

62

64%

Carriers Represented3344311

9%

1967

59%

606

18%

460

14%

RailUniverseIn ProductionCompleted TestingCurrently TestingWaiting to Begin Testing
Transmitters94

44%

1

1%

1

1%

3

33%

Carriers Represented1510

67%

1

6%

1

6%

3

20%