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U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced that new capabilities were deployed via the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) with respect to Importer Security Filing (ISF) known as ''10 + 2.'' ACE is the commercial trade processing system being developed by CBP to facilitate legitimate trade and strengthen border security.
These new capabilities include the following:
- Importers now have access through ACE to the ISF progress reports that have to date only been available via email subscription.
- These ISF progress reports, previously available only to importers, are now also available via ACE to ISF filers and sureties.
- Importers who file 12 or fewer ISF transactions per year will now be able to file and track their ISF transactions directly via the ACE portal, without the need to file via the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).
ACE will continue to deliver additional, valuable ISF capabilities. The following capabilities are planned for delivery later in 2011:
- Capability to query the status of an ISF transaction by transaction number and by bill of lading number, and
- Capability for Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) Tier 3 importers to query individual ISF transactions.
