CBP Says it's Time to Prepare for M1 & 6-Month Decommissioning of AMS
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued two messages alerting the trade that the six-month count down to turning off the Automated Manifest System and replacing it with ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1) is targeted to start in March…
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2012 when CBP announces that M1 will be the only CBP-approved electronic data interchange (EDI) through which rail and sea manifests will be transmitted. CBP warns that there will be mandatory changes to functionality that impact ABI software developers and their users, and it is time for those not filing via ACE e-Manifest: Rail and Sea to test and become certified now. CBP notes that the deployment of M1 is going well, and that all direct arrival ports will be deployed with trained CBP users by the end of March 2012. CSMS #12-000051 (dated 02/17/12) available here. CSMS #12-000050 and attachment (dated 02/17/12) available here.