CBP Punts Second Stage of de Minimis Automation in ACE to January

CBP will delay the scheduled Sept. 28 deployment of automating the $800 de minimis threshold in ACE following feedback from the trade community (see 2407240038), the agency said in a Sept. 3 CSMS message.

The Sept. 28 deadline would have introduced a new ACE functionality to enforce the $800 daily aggregated limit for de minimis shipments. CBP is postponing deployment to Jan. 11, when it will launch a functionality in ACE "that provides a warning flag to filers when a shipment may exceed the administrative exemption."

"CBP will continue efforts to deploy the functionality to automatically reject the ineligible shipments and will deploy that functionality no sooner than 30 days from the warning flag deployment," the message said. "The Agency will work with the trade community to ensure the process and automation does not impact the flow of legitimate goods."

The agency said the delay is to ensure that the automation "does not negatively impact the efficient flow of goods through U.S. ports of entry. This change will support automated enforcement of the Section 321 requirements." CBP directed questions to ecommerce@cbp.dhs.gov.

The agency had said in late July that the first stage of its $800 de minimis limit validation in ACE went smoothly (see 2407310052). In that stage, Type 86 filings were required to include an estimated date of arrival starting July 25. This second stage, initially set for September, would have resulted in the rejection of shipments for exceeding the limit (see 2407310052), and is currently in the certification environment for testing (see 2408200024).