CBP to Automate Removal of Type 86 Filers in ACE, Deploy Entry Date Restrictions Aug. 17

CBP plans to add a new ACE functionality that will automate the removal and restoration of Entry Type 86 test participants, it said in the latest version of its ACE development schedule, released Aug. 5.

The deployment is slated for April. CBP suspended multiple customs brokers from the pilot in May, citing an “unacceptable compliance risk” (see 2405310054). Among them was Seko Logistics, which is now challenging its suspension and subsequent conditional reinstatement in court (see 2407260045).

The schedule said CBP will on Aug. 17 begin enforcing its new requirement, announced in a January notice (see 2401120070), that Type 86 entries be filed “before or upon arrival of the associated cargo.” The previous schedule had listed Aug. 3 as the enforcement date.

Two drawback deployments will follow on Aug. 20, according to the development schedule. One is implementation of accelerated payment for USMCA drawback claims, which CBP had previously said would happen in late August (see 2407260016). The other is a new indicator for retail sales drawback claims.

And the agency said it anticipates adding fields for steel country of melt and country of pour to the entry summary in February 2025.

CBP also listed two new planned deployments in April related to the agency’s global business identifier pilot. One will expand the GBI pilot enrollment process by “enabling trade users to submit one, two, or all three of the global identifiers for any party type that the trade identifies within their GBI enrollment submission,” the schedule said.

The other will add “an additional free text field associated with party types that will allow filers to input additional descriptions about the party/GBI number provided.”