Open ACE ESAR A2.2 Programming Issues (10 Closed, 2 Opened)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection 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 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.)
10 Programming Issues Moved to Closed or Cancelled List
| Date Closed | Issue Description (complete description) |
| 02/14/10 | ACE Entry Summary Filer's Transactions Rejected in Error. A new self-filing importer submitted entry summary transactions to ACE which were rejected from ACE for “Broker Not Authorized in Port”. Investigation found that the EDI profile was correctly established in ACE to permit the filer to successfully submit entry summaries to ACE. Further investigation uncovered that the Customization Indicator check is being performed on self-filing importer transactions in error. Therefore, the Customization Indicator check needs to be eliminated for self-filing importers. |
| 02/22/10 | AD/CVD entry summary report results inconsistent. AD/CVD entry summaries (entry type 03) have been successful transmitted to, processed by, and persisted in ACE. Report ESM 7068 includes all of the entry type 03 entry summaries added to date. ESM 8027 report only includes a subset of the entry type 03 entry summaries. Report ESM 7008, includes none of the entry type 03 summaries. (The date range and other criteria being used is identical.) |
| 04/08/10 | Error in Validation of DOT Records in an ACE Entry Summary Batch Transaction. A large batch of ACE entry summaries is being rejected incorrectly for a validation of the DOT records. The large batch of entry summaries contained 334 entry summaries, each entry summary has 3 lines and each line has a DT1 and DT2 record. The validation which determines the number of DT records in an entry summary is being incorrectly applied to the entire batch. A single entry summary line may have up to 999 DT1 or DT2 records. Since there were over 999 DT1 (and DT2) records in the entire batch, the validation for loop exceeded (number of records permitted) was incorrectly applied to the entire batch of entry summaries and not to each individual entry summary. |
| 06/22/10 | ACS Entry Summary Deleted in ACS - Not Deleted in the ACE Data Warehouse. As an example, an ACS entry summary entry type 42 was deleted by CBP on 4/26/10 was not deleted automatically from the ACE data warehouse which is used for ACE portal reports. |
| 03/14/11 | ACE Entry Summary - Rejected for ACE System Failure. A trade participant submitted an entry summary transaction to ACE on Friday, 3/11/11, at 12:03 which ACE rejected for an ACE System Failure. It appears that ACE does not correctly accept a country of origin in the 40-record, positions 9-10 equal to “**” as specified in the ACE ABI CATAIR. |
| 05/11/11 | ACE Entry Summary in CBP Control Deleted by the Trade. An ACE entry summary which had previously been accepted in ACE, moved to CBP control when it appeared on statement, was rejected by the entry specialist, and then accepted by the entry specialist - was then permitted by the ACE system to be deleted from ACE with an entry summary AE delete transaction. |
| 05/31/11 | ACE CERT PSC entry summary transaction rejected in error. ACE CERT PSC AE transactions submitted by a filer to replace a conventional entry summary originally filed by another trade participant in ACE CERT are being rejected in error -- the EDI profile in both ACS CERT and ACE CERT appear to be correct to permit this filer/port combination. This test is for a PSC filer to replace an entry summary originally filed by another. |
| 09/23/11 | ACE Entry Summary Rejected in Error for FDA Data. An ACE entry summary (AE) transaction filed today, 9/23/11, was incorrectly rejected by ACE for a loop exceeded for FDA records. The entry summary transaction contained 47 PGA invoice groupings -- each of which, based on the ACE ABI CATAIR Entry Summary Create/Update chapter, should be accepted with up to 999 FDA affirmation of compliance records (FD05 records) per invoice OI-record grouping. However, it appears that ACE did not recognize that a new loop exists for each invoice grouping and rejected the entry summary for exceeding a total of 999 FD05 records for the single entry summary line. |
| 11/29/11 | ACE Entry Summary Not in ACS. An entry summary transaction successfully added to ACE yesterday, 11/28/11, and sent to ACS, does not exist in ACS. The event sending the ACE data to ACS (with an A action code) to create the entry summary in ACS failed at ACS for “ENTRY DELETE NOT ALLOWED”. A release shell exists in ACS for this entry summary. |
| 04/26/12 | ACE portal error when attaching documents to forms for ACS entry summaries. When a trade user attempts to add attachments to various CBP forms on the ACE portal for ACS entry summaries, the attachments are not added and a response is not sent to CBP. |
2 Programming Issues Opened
| Date Opened | Issue Description (complete description) |
| 05/07/12 | ACE Entry Summaries Rejected in Error for IR Number Validation. A filer submitted a few ACE AEs using the format of the sold to and delivered to parties without the suffix on an IRS number. ACE rejected these for unknown parties. However, reporting the IR number format (an IRS number without the suffix) as related in the Entry Summary Create/Update CATAIR chapter Usage note f. indicates that the IRS number with no suffix is acceptable. ACE should accept the party ID for an IRS number with no suffix in the IR, consignee, 4811, sold to and delivered to parties. |
| 06/19/12 | ACE Portal: Trade View: Forms Search Function. When a Trade User searches for all forms on the Forms Search Screen, the results returned are only those forms for which the CBP Status is Sent. ACE should display all of the forms for all statuses that meet the search criteria. Currently, only forms in a ‘Sent’ status are displayed and the forms in ‘Response Received’ or ‘Closed’ status are not displayed. |
Issues Open List
The following 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. |
| 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. |
| 12/29/09 | ACE Entry Summary Error in E0-Record on Reject Output. |
| 01/20/10 | ACE Entry Summary Condition Code Error. |
| 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". |
| 04/13/10 | Additional ACE entry summary boundary testing issues. |
| 06/09/10 | ACE ES Rejected in Error for Article Set Validation. |
| 06/15/10 | ACE Entry Summary AX Response E1-Record Error. |
| 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. |
| 08/19/10 | ACE System Failure. |
| 08/20/10 | ACE Entry Summary Incorrectly Rejected for Missing OI-Record |
| 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 | 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 | "Large" Importer/Bond Query Output Issue. |
| 03/31/11 | ACE Entry Summary Rejected in Error for PGA Records. |
| 04/05/11 | ACE System Failure for Inactivated ACE Entry Summary. |
| 04/27/11 | ACE Entry Summary Outbound Response Message Error. |
| 05/02/11 | ACE Entry Summary - Commercial Description Record Repeat Error. |
| 05/04/11 | ACE CERT ES Not in ACS. |
| 05/18/11 | ACE Portal - AD/CVD message sort not working properly. |
| 07/21/11 | PSC AE by Another Filer - UC Message Error. |
| 07/28/11 | ACE PSC Entry Summary Rejected in Error for Permit Validation. |
| 08/18/11 | CBP Form "TO" Address Issue. |
| 08/29/11 | AD/CVD Case Rate Replication Error -- ACE to ACS. |
| 09/02/11 | Broker Permit Records Missing for New York/New Jersey Ports. |
| 09/26/11 | ACE portal report error - AM-007. |
| 10/03/11 | ACE Entry Summaries - Incorrect Control Status. |
| 10/05/11 | F1 Event Error for ACE Entry Summary - Blank 20-Record. |
| 10/10/11 | ACE Entry Summary - AD/CVD Warning Message Error. |
| 10/19/11 | ACE Entry Summary Query. |
| 10/21/11 | ACE entry summary not appearing on daily statement. |
| 10/21/11 | ACE entry summary transaction not rejected when passed PMS date for the month. |
| 10/26/11 | Additional ACE Entry Summary Query Output Format Errors. |
| 11/01/11 | ACE Entry Summary Rejected for Incorrect Error Condition. |
| 11/01/11 | ACE Entry Summaries in CBP Control - Date and Status versus ACS -- Discrepant. |
| 11/08/11 | ACE Entry Summary - Reject Condition Error. |
| 11/09/11 | PSC Filing Explanation Not Returned in ACE ES Query. |
| 11/15/11 | ACE Entry Summary Not in ACS. |
| 11/17/11 | ACE Entry Summaries Rejected In Error for RLF Verification. |
| 12/08/11 | ACE Entry Summary Rejected for HTS Not Active. |
| 12/19/11 | ACE Entry Summary Processed in Error. |
| 01/12/12 | ES Query Response Missing PSC Accept Date. |
| 02/14/12 | ACE ES Outbound AX Error for Consolidated Releases. |
| 03/01/12 | ACE ABI "Batch Rejected" Outbound Messages Constructed Incorrectly. |
| 03/22/12 | ACE Entry Summary Remote Location Filing Reject - Incorrect Condition Text. |
| 04/23/12 | ACE ES not in ACE report ESM-7068. |
| 04/23/12 | RLF ACE Entry Summary Cargo Release Response from ACS for Broker Permit Revoked. |
| 05/11/12 | ACE AX Missing E0-Record for CENWRN Sign Post. |