Custom Clarification Relating to Electronic FTZ Filings

On Wednesday, August 16, 2017, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published a Federal Register Notice (FRN) providing an extension and clarification about the transition of the electronic Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) Admission Application's test program from the Automated Commercial System ("ACS") to ACE.

This document announces U.S. Customs and Border Protection's plan to extend a test program for submitting electronic Foreign Trade Zone admission applications to CBP via the Automated Broker Interface (ABI). This notice further announces a clarification regarding the data elements that are required for the submission of an FTZ admission application, as well as the transition of the test program from the Automated Commercial System (ACS) to the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE).