ACE Changes Coming for Safeguards on Solar Cells and Washers, TIB Extensions

Requests for extensions or closures of Temporary Importation Bonds will be deployed in ACE on Feb. 24, a CBP official said on the agency’s biweekly ACE call with the trade community on Feb. 1. While output records will mostly be affected, CBP will also be putting in a new input record to request the extension or closure, the official said. CBP will set up a daily support call following the deployment, which also includes reconciliation, drawback and liquidation. The call will be available Feb. 26 through March 2 from 2p.m. to 3 p.m., with the call-in number still unannounced. Meanwhile, CBP also is implementing recently imposed safeguard duties on residential washers and solar cells in ACE, effective Feb. 7 (see 1801230052 and 1801240036). New tariff schedule subheadings will be added in Chapter 99, as will a secondary unit of quantity for kilowatt hours in Chapter 85 so CBP can track the quota amount for solar cells and force filers to the high-quota rate once it’s filled.