Reminder and clarification on mandatory ACE filing timeline.
Below are excerpts from CBP’s CSMS #16-000238, provided as:
(1) a reminder that effective this Thursday, March 31, 2016, filers will be required to file certain
transactions in ACE and no longer permitted to file in ACS; and,
(2) a clarification / correction of an earlier CSMS notice on the updated mandatory transition
timeline, which included an erroneous reference to entry type 11 (Informal) in the summer 2016
time frame. To clarify, electronically filed entry type 11 transactions are required to be filed in