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POSTPONED: ACE PRODUCTION EXTENDED Scheduled Maintenance this Weekend, Sat. April 10, 2021@ 9pm ET to 4am ET Sunday, April 11
CBP announces that the previously scheduled extended ACE Production maintenance window for April 10-11, 2021 has been postponed, delaying a software upgrade affecting manifest, in-bond, entry summary, and various ABI message processing to a later, yet-to-be-determined date.
Update - AES Commodity Response Messages 227 and 007 Restored from Informational to Fatal
CBP announces that AES commodity response codes 227 and 007, currently set to informational, will be restored to fatal severity on April 13, 2021, and provides related validation details for filers and software vendors.
ACE CERTIFICATION Scheduled Maintenance, Wed. April 7, 2021 @ 5pm ET to 8pm ET
CBP announced a scheduled ACE Certification environment maintenance window on April 7, 2021, including a deployment update that validates the in-bond destination port on truck manifest EDI submissions, rejecting invalid ports with error code 033.
ACE PRODUCTION EXTENDED Scheduled Maintenance this Weekend, Sat. April 10, 2021@ 9pm ET to 4am ET Sunday, April 11
CBP announced an extended ACE Production maintenance window on Saturday, April 10, 2021 from 9pm to 4am ET Sunday for an infrastructure software upgrade improving MQ message processing across manifest, in-bond, entry summary, and various ABI message types.
ACE CERTIFICATION **Trade Testing Requested** after MQ Software upgrade
CBP upgraded MQ infrastructure software in the ACE Certification environment to improve processing of manifests, in-bonds, entry summary, and several ABI message types, and is asking trade partners to submit test messages before the upgrade moves to Production this weekend.
ACE CERTIFICATION EXTENDED Maintenance this evening for MQ Software upgrade, Monday April 5, 2021 @ 5pm ET to 11pm ET
CBP announced extended maintenance in the ACE Certification environment for an MQ software infrastructure upgrade on April 5, 2021, affecting manifest, in-bond, entry summary, and ABI query message processing; the same upgrade is planned for the Production environment the following weekend.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Product Code End-date
CBP announces that FDA will end-date a CDER product code (Remicade) effective May 5, 2021, directing filers to use an alternate product code instead.
NO ACE PRODUCTION Scheduled Maintenance this weekend April 3, 2021
CBP announced that there will be no ACE Production scheduled maintenance or deployments during the usual Saturday night window on April 3, 2021, so ACE Portal and EDI processing will remain fully operational.
Goods with Country of Origin of Cuba can be Manually Filed in ACE Cargo Release with Valid Office of Foreign Assets Control License
CBP announced that ACE Cargo Release now supports manual filing for Cuban-origin merchandise when accompanied by a valid OFAC license, deployed to production on April 13, 2021, updating prior guidance.
Final Versions of the PGA Message Set and Appendix PGA have been posted to CBP.gov
CBP announced that final versions of the PGA Message Set and Appendix PGA were posted to CBP.gov, replacing draft versions, reflecting updates deployed to production on March 20, 2021 across several PGA-related systems including FDA and APHIS updates and ACE status notifications.
Daily Update: K-Line America Inc. IT Issues
CBP provides a daily update that K-Line America Inc. is still experiencing a system-wide global IT outage, and interim downtime processes remain in effect for legitimate shipments.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Recommends Use of Import Trade Auxiliary Communication System (ITACS)
CBP relays FDA's recommendation that importers, brokers, and consignees use the ITACS system to receive electronic Notices of FDA Action and check entry status, and explains how to request an account.
RESCHEDULED to 4/10: ACE PRODUCTION EXTENDED Scheduled Maintenance for this Weekend, Sat. April 3, 2021@ 9pm ET to 4am ET
CBP announced that the extended ACE production maintenance window originally scheduled for April 3, 2021 has been rescheduled to April 10, 2021, for an infrastructure software upgrade to improve MQ message processing performance.
CANCELLED: ACE CERTIFICATION EXTENDED Scheduled Maintenance this evening, Thurs April 1, 2021 @ 5pm ET to 9pm ET
CBP announces the cancellation and postponement of a scheduled ACE Certification environment maintenance window for an MQ software upgrade, with a new date to be announced separately.
Resolved - ACE CBP MultiModal Manifest Issues 4/1/2021
CBP announced that the previously reported ACE CBP MultiModal Manifest issue from earlier on 4/1/2021 has been resolved.
ACE CBP MultiModal Manifest Issues 4/1/2021
CBP notified trade that ACE CBP MultiModal Manifest is experiencing issues, requiring ports to operate under downtime procedures until a follow-up message announces resolution.
Daily Update: K-Line America Inc. IT Issues
CBP provides a daily update that K-Line America Inc. continues to experience a system-wide global IT outage, with downtime processes remaining in effect to facilitate legitimate shipments and transactions.
Completed-CBP ACE Emergency Maintenance at 8:30 pm ET 3/31/2021
CBP announced that emergency maintenance on the ACE system was completed as of 8:30 pm ET on 3/31/2021 and that the backlog of messages was being processed.
CBP ACE Emergency Maintenance Extended 3/31/21
CBP announced an extension of emergency ACE system maintenance until 9:30 ET, affecting all ACE processing including the ACE Portal, with a follow-up notice to be issued upon completion.
POSTPONED TO 4/1: ACE CERTIFICATION EXTENDED Scheduled Maintenance, Thurs April 1, 2021 @ 5pm ET to 9pm ET **TRADE TESTS NEEDED**
CBP postponed extended ACE Certification environment maintenance to April 1, 2021, 5-9pm ET, for an infrastructure software upgrade affecting import manifests, entry summaries, and ABI queries, and requested trade partners test messages afterward.