CBP Lists Benefits of ACE Accounts for Importers & Invites Sign Up
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a fact sheet inviting importers to take part in the many advantages of establishing an ACE portal account. Benefits of an importer ACE portal account include access to numerous reports, improved communications with CBP and a consolidated management approach facilitated by the tracking of import activity in a single, comprehensive, account based view.
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Additional benefits for importers include:
Periodic Monthly Statement for Duties and Fees
- Transition to an interest-free monthly statement process from a transaction-by-transaction payment process
- Pay for eligible shipments released during a month by the 15th working day of the following month for your account on either a national or a port monthly statement
Compliance, Transactional and Financial Data
- Access over 125 reports on company specific compliance, transactional and financial data
- Schedule large customized bulk data download reports
- Review CBP entry summary data in near real-time
- Review the status of your bills of lading refreshed every two hours
- In the future share customized reports with all users within your account who have access to reports
- Link to the Importer Security Filing Portal to view ISF reports and for importers who file infrequently the ability to file up to 12 ISFs annually through the ISF Portal.
Account Management
- Create an account based on your company’s organizational structure and restrict user access to select account information
- Offer cross account access to other ACE portal accounts (e.g., brokers) while maintaining control over access privileges
- View, sort, and print account lists by name and number; create CBP Form 5106 (Importer ID Input Record) information; and access an expanded number of reference files, including port and country codes and Manufacturer ID
- Attach electronic information (e.g., pdf, Word, Excel, etc.), track or respond to CBP on compliance and operational issues via the Business Activity Log
- Respond to a CBP Form 28, 29, and 4647 via the Portal for both ACS and ACE entry summaries.
- Create blanket declarations via the Portal
- View and search bond information
- Search, display and print AD/CVD case information and AD/CVD messages
- Record and track the life cycle of an AD/CVD case by accessing important case information such as duty deposit rates, entry summary suspension status, bond / cash status, administrative review information and events related to the case history (e.g., “Initiation,” “Preliminary,” “Final,” “Order,” “Terminated”).
- Access AD/CVD messages with additional useful information in one easy location such as additional message header data elements (e.g., “message status,” “Federal Register Notice cite,” “Federal Register Notice publication date,” “court order number”)
Importer Fact Sheet (posted 12/14/11) available here.
Similar fact sheet for customs brokers and sureties are also available (broker, surety).