CBP Gives Brokers More Time to File Lists of All Employees in ACE Portal

CBP will give customs brokers nearly two more months to comply with a new requirement to submit lists of all current employees to CBP via the ACE Portal, the agency said in a CSMS message. Brokers will now have until April 14 to comply with the requirement from the recent customs broker modernization final rule (see 2210170071). The deadline had previously been Feb. 17 (see 2212190056).

The extension will “give brokers additional time to comply with the requirements and allow for implementation of technical fixes in ACE,” CBP said. A new “bulk” employee reporting functionality was only deployed in the modernized ACE portal on Feb. 2 (see 2302020071). CBP also is working on fixes to populate missing employee date of birth and place of birth fields that were migrated from now-defunct local permits, and remove duplicate employees from the broker employee list, it said.

Changes to CBP’s Part 111 customs broker regulations from the broker modernization final rule now require brokers to report all current employees to CBP, including those not directly engaged in customs brokerage, such as administrative and warehouse employees. A lawyer on a recent webinar said some larger companies were having trouble meeting the Feb. 17 deadline (see 2301260059).