[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 17, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4900-4901]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-00852]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Delay of Effective Date for the Automated Commercial Environment
(ACE) Becoming the Sole CBP-Authorized Electronic Data Interchange
(EDI) System for Processing Electronic Drawback and Duty Deferral Entry
and Entry Summary Filings
AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland
Security.
ACTION: Delay of effective date.
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SUMMARY: On August 30, 2016, 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 the Commissioner of U.S. Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) for processing electronic drawback and duty
deferral entry and entry summary filings. The changes announced in that
notice were to have been effective on October 1, 2016. On October 3,
2016, CBP published a notice in the Federal Register announcing that
the effective date for the transition to ACE as the sole CBP-authorized
EDI system for electronic drawback and duty deferral entry and entry
summary filings would be delayed until further notice. On December 12,
2016, CBP published a notice in the Federal Register announcing that
the effective date for the transition would be January 14, 2017. This
notice announces that the effective date for the transition has been
delayed until further notice.
DATES: The effective date is delayed until further notice: CBP will
publish a subsequent notice announcing the effective date when ACE will
be the sole CBP-authorized EDI system for processing electronic
drawback and duty deferral entry and entry summary filings, and ACS
will no longer be a CBP-authorized EDI system for purposes of
processing these filings.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions related to this notice may
be emailed to [email protected] with the subject line identifier
reading ``ACS to ACE Drawback and Duty Deferral Entry and Entry Summary
Filings transition''.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 30, 2016, U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) published a notice in the Federal Register (81 FR
59644) announcing plans to make the Automated Commercial Environment
(ACE) the sole electronic data interchange (EDI) system authorized by
the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for
processing electronic drawback and duty deferral entry and entry
summary filings, effective on October 1, 2016. The document also
announced that, on October 1, 2016, the Automated Commercial System
(ACS) would no longer be a CBP-authorized EDI system for purposes of
processing these electronic filings. Finally, the notice announced a
name change for the ACE filing code for duty deferral and the creation
of a new ACE filing code for all electronic drawback filings, replacing
the six distinct drawback codes previously filed in ACS. On October 3,
2016, CBP published a notice in the Federal Register (81 FR 68023)
announcing that the effective date for these changes would be delayed
until further notice. Thereafter, on December 12, 2016, CBP published a
notice in the Federal Register (81 FR 89486) announcing that the new
effective date for the transition would be January 14, 2017.
The effective date for the all that was announced in the August 30,
2016 Federal Register notice, including the transition to ACE as the
sole CBP-authorized EDI system for electronic drawback and duty
deferral entry and entry summary filings, is delayed until further
notice. CBP will publish a subsequent notice announcing the effective
date.
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Dated: January 11, 2017.
Brenda B. Smith,
Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Trade.
[FR Doc. 2017-00852 Filed 1-13-17; 8:45 am]
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