Open ACE ESAR A2.2 Programming Issues (6 Issues Added, 7 Closed)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has posted an updated version of its spreadsheet of ACE ESAR A2.2 (Initial Entry Types) programming issues.
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(ESAR A2.2 allows for the filing and processing of formal (type 01) and informal (type 11) entry summaries for those who volunteer to submit such entry summaries in ACE. It also allows importers with ACE accounts (and brokers if granted cross account access) to respond to certain CBP forms via the ACE portal.)
Seven Programming Issues Added to the Closed List
The following seven items were moved from the “Open” list to the “Closed” list with this update:
| Date Opened | Issue Description (complete description) |
| 07/23/09 | ACE entry summaries missing from daily statement. An ACE entry summary filer submitted several entry summaries on Sunday July 12th. The entry summaries (AE transactions) submitted prior to 18:55 were processed by ACE and returned a valid AX response -- summary has been added. The filer submitted these (and ones after 18:55) with a statement print date of 072209. The entry summaries submitted prior to 18:55 did not appear on yesterday’s (072209) statement, the ones submitted after 18:55 did appear. In addition, the ACE CATAIR AE and AX transactions submitted prior to 18:55 on Sunday, July 12th do not appear in EMM. Only those submitted after 18:55 appear in EMM. |
| 08/19/09 | Entry Summary Accepted in ACE Not Found in ACS. A filer submitted an ACE entry summary on 8/1/09 at 06:46. The event was not successful -- either not created, created and not sent, or not received and processed by ACS. The entry summary did not appear on a statement for the filer to pay causing potentially liquidated damages. The response message (AX) from ACE to the filer appeared correctly and as expected. The entry summary was not found in ACS. All other entry summaries processed that day were correctly processed in ACE and ACS. However, the entry summary has subsequently been re-submitted and has now processed correctly in ACE and ACS. |
| 02/15/10 | AD/CVD case information query did not provide a response. An AD/CVD case information query attempting to query all cases updated since 2/14/10 did not provide an output response to the filer. It appears that the output would include all case records in the case management file and be greater than the file size limitation. The transaction did not reject or provide a response. |
| 04/05/11 | ATS Screening of ACE ES Issue. An ATS rule implemented starting on 4/4/11 is generating hits for an incorrect entry summary condition. The rule targets entry summaries with SPI = CA and COO not equal to CA. However, if the shipment originates in Canada, the COO must be reported as the Canadian province and not CA. |
| 04/06/11 | ACE System Failures. 19 ACE entry summary transactions (AEs) were rejected by ACE during 2 time periods on 4/6/11; 15:36 to 15:41 and 17:50 to 18:00. Research indicated that it was not an ACE issue - other teams contacted. AEs for only 2 filers impacted. |
| 04/07/11 | ACE ABI CATAIR entry summary and related transactions not processing in ACE on 4/7/11 from 09:51 to 10:53. For example, submitted AD and AE transactions were not processed and a resulting AC or AX outbound response message was not provided. |
| 04/12/11 | ACE ES Rejects in Error for Not an ACE Filer. Several ACE entry summaries submitted by one trade participant were rejected by ACE in error for Periodic Statement Requires ACE Filer. |
Six Programming Issues Added to the Open List
With this update, CBP has newly listed the following as “Open” programming issues:
| Date Opened | Issue Description (complete description) |
| 03/31/11 | ACE Entry Summary Rejected in Error for PGA Records. An ACE filer submitted an ACE entry summary transaction which ACE rejected incorrectly for issues with the HTS number, duty, and value. However, the data records based on the ACE ABI CATAIR and business rule validations are correct. ACE does not correctly handle PGA record sets for the same entry summary line when FDA records (FD01, FD02, etc.) are reported in sequence prior to DOT records (DT01, etc.). For this entry summary for the lines in question when the sequence of the PGA records is changed so that the DOT records are prior to the FDA records, the entry summary processes correctly and is accepted in ACE. |
| 04/05/11 | ACE System Failure for Inactivated ACE Entry Summary. An entry summary transaction (AE) submitted to ACE for an already existing ACE entry summary which has been inactivated in ACE is being responded to incorrectly by ACE with an ACE System Failure response. ACE should reject the AE transaction for an inactivated ACE entry summary with the response message “Action Not Allowed -- Non-ACE Summary”. |
| 04/07/11 | HTS 9403.90.8010 Issue. An ACE filer submitted an entry summary transaction to ACE, 4/6/11, which ACE rejected for HTS number not active. However, the HTS number (9403908010) is active in ACS with a begin date of 01/01/11 and end data of 99/99/99. The HTS number should have been accepted in an entry summary in ACE. |
| 04/11/11 | HTS Number 9903.40.05 Issue. A filer submitted an entry summary transaction to ACE on Friday, 4/8/11, which ACE rejected for HTS number not active. However, the HTS number (99034005) is active in ACS with a begin date of 092610 and end data of 092511. The HTS number should have been accepted in an entry summary in ACE. |
| 04/11/11 | ACE Entry Summary AE - No AX Response. An ACE entry summary transaction submitted on 4/7/11 during the system “outage” was resubmitted 3 times the following day on 4/8/11. None of the resubmissions indicate that the AE transaction was processed and none provided an outbound response AX message. The entry summary was apparently processed (even though an AX response was not provided) during the outage on 4/7/11 since it exists in the ACE data base. |
| 04/11/11 | ACE Entry Summary Not on Preliminary Statement. An ACE entry summary is not appearing on a preliminary statement. For several days the AE was successfully transmitted (and re-transmitted) to be on a daily statement and accepted in ACE and replicated to ACS. |
An Additional 52 Issues Remain on Open List
52 issues continue to be listed as “Open” on CBP’s spreadsheet (see spreadsheet for full details of each open issue, as well a full list of the issues that have been closed (completed), canceled, and deferred:
| Date Opened | Issue Description (first sentence only) |
| 06/05/09 | Multiple batch transmissions only processing first batch. |
| 06/23/09 | "Control record format issues with HD transaction. |
| 08/07/09 | Paperless indicator discrepancy between broker and CBP statements. |
| 08/19/09 | Entry Summary Accepted in ACE Not Found in ACS. . |
| 11/02/09 | Internal Event in Error as Created from an ACE Entry Summary. |
| 11/11/09 | Multiple Entry Summary Queries in a Batch Not Processed in ACE. |
| 11/12/09 | ACE Entry Summary Control Status Changed in Error. |
| 11/24/09 | ACE entry summary reject text incorrect in article party record. |
| 12/21/09 | ACE Entry Summary AX Response Issue for ACE System Failure Messages. |
| 12/29/09 | ACE Entry Summary Error in E0-Record on Reject Output. |
| 01/15/10 | Large bond query messages (KI) are failing to process in ACE PROD. |
| 01/20/10 | ACE Entry Summary Condition Code Error. |
| 02/11/10 | ACE entry summaries with a blank liquidation date. |
| 02/14/10 | ACE Entry Summary Filer's Transactions Rejected in Error. |
| 02/22/10 | AD/CVD entry summary report results inconsistent. |
| 03/02/10 | ACE Outbound Message Not Received by Filer. |
| 04/01/10 | ACE RLF entry summary rejected in error for "RLF REQUIRES CARGO RLSE CERTIFICATION". |
| 04/08/10 | Error in Validation of DOT Records in an ACE Entry Summary Batch Transaction. |
| 04/13/10 | Additional ACE entry summary boundary testing issues. |
| 06/02/10 | Entry Summary Transactions Not Rejected by ACE for District/Port Restriction. |
| 06/09/10 | ACE ES Rejected in Error for Article Set Validation. |
| 06/09/10 | ACE Entry Summary Reject in Error for Non-Numeric Validation. |
| 06/15/10 | ACE Entry Summary AX Response E1-Record Error. |
| 06/17/10 | ACE ES Missing AD/CVD Case - Generates ACE System Failure in Error. |
| 06/22/10 | ACS Entry Summary Deleted in ACS - Not Deleted in the ACE Data Warehouse. |
| 06/22/10 | ACE Entry Summary Returns No Response AX Message. |
| 07/01/10 | ACE System Failures for Multiple Ruling Details. |
| 07/15/10 | ACE Entry Summary Not Rejected for Overlapping Invoice Data. |
| 07/21/10 | AD/CVD Query - Party Records Not Provided in Error. |
| 07/23/10 | ACE Control Y-Record - Record Count Errors. |
| 07/26/10 | ACE CATAIR Outbound Message Segmentation Issue. |
| 07/27/10 | AD/CVD Case Information Query EDI Profile Authorization Error. |
| 08/03/10 | AD/CVD Case Information Rates Error in AC Response. |
| 08/17/10 | ACE System Failures. |
| 08/20/10 | ACE Entry Summary Incorrectly Rejected for Missing OI-Record |
| 09/01/10 | ACE Entry Summary Header Consignee Validation Error. |
| 09/28/10 | EDI profile update issue. |
| 11/23/10 | Issues with ACE ES Query Outbound Response. |
| 11/29/10 | Importer/Bond Query Response Address Truncated. |
| 12/02/10 | Duplicate AX Response Messages. |
| 01/06/11 | ACE ES Versioning Issue. |
| 01/13/11 | Rejected ACE AE Does Not Delete Existing Entry Summary in ACE. |
| 01/18/11 | ACE Entry Summary Rejected in Error for No In-bond Number. |
| 01/19/11 | ACE Data Base Errors Cause Portal Functions to Fail. |
| 01/25/11 | ACE entry summary report AM-008 data discrepancy. |
| 02/11/11 | FIRMS code discrepancies between ACE and ACS. |
| 02/11/11 | ACE creating multiple CBP assigned numbers to the same exact firm name and address. |
| 02/16/11 | ACE Outbound Response Message Error. |
| 03/02/11 | Non-space data found in filler field - location not identified. |
| 03/14/11 | ACE Entry Summary - Rejected for ACE System Failure. |
| 03/14/11 | "Large" Importer/Bond Query Output Issue. |
| 03/29/11 | Issue with AD/CVD Case manufacturer and foreign exporter names. |
(See ITT’s Online Archives or 04/04/11 news, 11040428, for BP summary of CBP’s most recent previous list of open issues.
See ITT's Online Archives or 04/14/09 news, 09041430 #1, for BP summary announcing that ESAR A2.2 was deployed on April 12th as scheduled.
See ITT's Online Archives or 04/07/09 news, 09040715, for recent BP summary on ESAR A2.2 portal changes.)