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ACE – New report to see late ISF filings

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

US Customs has announced that a new ISF Report is available in ACE for importers and filers to monitor whether any of their own filings are late. Note: Although the report is available in ACE, it tracks ISFs filed in both ACE and AMS.

Users will need to subscribe to the “Late ISF Importer Report (PDF).” Use the steps below to subscribe to the new report:

After logging onto the ACE Secure Data Portal, select the References Tab.
Select Launch ISF.
Select Reports.
Select Subscribe to Reports.
Select the Late ISF Importer Report (PDF).

Filers are reminded that the “By Filer By Importer Report” is available in both a PDF and an Excel format.

CBP’s official notice is available here.

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ISF progress reports – how to access

Monday, November 28th, 2011

US Customs has announced that it will no longer be emailing ISF Progress Reports after the December 2011 reports. Rather, recipients can continue to access the reports through the ACE Secure Data Portal.

The full notice, which can be found here, includes a link to set up a free ACE Portal Account.

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July 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update

Monday, August 1st, 2011

US Customs has just issued its July 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update.

Highlights include:

Next ACE Release: e-Manifest: Rail and Sea.
- Given the success of e-Manifests: Trucks, CBP will allow rail and sea carriers to transmit electronic manifest data to ACE (in accordance with Customs’ plan to replace AMS with ACE; CBP expects ACS to be decommissioned for rail and sea manifests by July 2012)
- Trade testing successfully completed; trade pilot to begin in September, with port rollout in Baltimore, Buffalo and Brownsville to follow in October
- Deployment will provide numerous benefits to the trade, as well as new rules and edits.
New ISF capabilities deployed on July 13 - See our previous blog post for more details.
Cargo Release Update – CBP has completed specifications documents, which are now under formal review; design and acquisition phase expected to commence in early 2012.

The ACE Trade Account Owner Update is available here.

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New ISF capabilities for ACE launched

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

Yesterday, US Customs deployed the following new capabilities for the Automated Commercial Environment with respect to Importer Security Filings:

Importers now have access through ACE to the ISF progress reports that have to date only been available via email subscription.
These ISF progress reports, previously available only to importers, are now also available via ACE to ISF filers and sureties.
Importers who file 12 or fewer ISF transactions per year will now be able to file and track their ISF transactions directly via the ACE portal, without the need to file via the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

Specific guidance about using the new functionality is available here.

Also, CBP announced additional ACE functionality that will be available by the end of 2011:

Capability to query the status of an ISF transaction by transaction number and by bill of lading number, and
Capability for Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Tier 3 importers to query individual ISF transactions

The official notice is available here.

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ISF filers: Watch for modified edits for bond and carnet data

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Per US Customs’ CSMS# 11-000116:

On June 18, 2011, a number of Importer Security Filing (ISF) edits relating to bond data and carnet data will be converted from warnings to rejections. Please, be sure that any ISF transactions are fully compliant with these edits prior to that date. If you have any questions, comments, or issues related to these edits, please contact your assigned Client Representative.

Error Codes
- SA7 Cont Bond Not on File
- SA8 Cont Bond Not Active
- SA9 Bond Holder Not Active
- SAA Cont Bond is Insufficient
- SA1 Missing Carnet Country
- SA2 Missing Carnet Number
- SA3 Carnet Country Not on File

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ISFs – CBP plans maintenance to system this weekend

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

On January 29 and 30, for approximately 9 hours, US Customs will be undertaking maintenance — installing new hardware — on the Importer Security Filing (ISF) system. During this window, all ISF, Stow Plan, and Container Status messages submitted by the trade will be queued up and processed after the system is backed up.

The official notice is here.

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ISFs – CBP plans maintenance to system this weekend

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

On January 8 and 9, for approximately 12 hours, US Customs will be undertaking maintenance — installing new hardware — on the Importer Security Filing (ISF) system. During this window, all ISF, Stow Plan, and Container Status messages submitted by the trade will be queued up and processed after the system is backed up.

The official notice is here.

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US Customs announces new ISF disposition codes

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Know your ISF responses from CBP.

On July 16, US Customs (CBP) published a list of new disposition codes for various ISF actions. However, on August 17, CPB issued a correction to certain of these disposition codes. The disposition codes for the following actions are affected:

ISF Hold Removed for no ISF on file
ISF Hold Removed for ISF Compliance Issue
Do Not Load Removed for no ISF on file
Do Not Load Removed for ISF Compliance Issue

The revised disposition codes are available here.

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CBP updates the “10+2” ISF FAQs

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

An updated version of Custom’s ISF FAQs, dated July 9th, 2010 was recently posted to the CBP.gov website. Click here to view.

Note that some of the newest changes to the ISF programming will not be available until mid August at a minimum as they have not been published in the CATAIR or CAMIR implementation guides. The new functionality that will not be immediately available includes:

• ISF Submission Type Changes

• Late ISF Filing (No Bonds)

• ISF Type 11 coded transaction (Informal Shipments)

Remember that all questions and comments about the new FAQs may be sent to the Security_Filing_General@cbp.dhs.gov mailbox.

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CBP guidance: Do not use unknown Manufacturer Identification Number on ISFs

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

US Customs (CBP) has just issued guidance regarding the use of the unknown Manufacturer Identification Number (MID) data to report a manufacturer (or supplier). The use of the unknown MID is only allowed to be reported for ACE entry summary filings. Pursuant to the applicable regulation, 19 CFR 149.3(a)(5), the importer must report the identity of the actual manufacturer (or supplier) at the line item level for Importer Security Filing (ISF).

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