[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 235 (Friday, December 8, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58010-58011]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-26481]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

U.S. Customs and Border Protection


Delay of Transition of the Generating, Transmitting and Updating 
of Daily and Monthly Statements from the Automated Commercial System to 
the Automated Commercial Environment

AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland 
Security.

ACTION: Delay of transition of statement processing.

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SUMMARY: On November 8, 2017, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 
published a notice in the Federal Register announcing plans to make the 
Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) the sole electronic data 
interchange (EDI) system authorized by CBP for generating, 
transmitting, and updating daily and monthly statements for all entries 
except reconciliation (type 09) entries. The changes announced in that 
notice were to become operational on December 9, 2017. This notice 
announces that the date for the transition to ACE as the sole CBP-
authorized EDI system for statement processing is delayed until January 
6, 2018. ACE will not be the official system of records for statements 
until that time.

DATES: As of January 6, 2018, ACE will be the sole CBP-authorized EDI 
system for generating, transmitting, and updating daily and monthly 
statements, and the Automated Commercial System (ACS) will no longer be 
a CBP-authorized EDI system for such purpose.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For policy-related questions, contact 
Randy Mitchell, Commercial Operations, Revenue and Entry, Trade Policy 
and Programs, Office of Trade, via email at [email protected], 
or telephone at (202) 863-6532. For technical questions, contact 
Celestine Harrell, Revenue Modernization Branch, Trade Transformation 
Office, Office of Trade, via email at [email protected], or 
telephone at (202) 325-0101, with a subject line identifier reading 
``Statement Processing in ACE''.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 8, 2017, U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection (CBP) published a notice in the Federal Register (82 FR 
51852) announcing plans to make the Automated Commercial Environment 
(ACE) the sole electronic data interchange (EDI) system authorized by 
CBP for generating, transmitting, and updating daily and monthly 
statements for all entries except reconciliation (type 09) entries as 
of December 8, 2017. The document also announced that, beginning on 
December 8, 2017, the Automated Commercial System (ACS) would no longer 
be a CBP-authorized EDI system for such purposes.
    This notice announces that beginning January 6, 2018, ACE will 
become the sole CBP-authorized EDI system for processing daily and 
monthly statements, and ACS will no longer be a CBP-authorized EDI 
system for such purpose.

    Dated: December 5, 2017.
Cynthia F. Whittenburg,
Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Trade.
[FR Doc. 2017-26481 Filed 12-7-17; 8:45 am]
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