QUESTION: Does anyone in the membership have experiences extracting MPF, HMF, and Other fees from the ACE reporting tool ? I am finding it extremely difficult. The values are captured at entry line level not at entry header level. Despite this, the values are repeated for each line (MPF of $485 is repeated on […]
QUESTION: I have used this report many times, but now I am finding out that not all my entries are on this report. Consistently every month there have been entries that are on my broker’s report yet they are not on this report. One FEIN#, same start and finish date. Am I […]
QUESTION: Does anyone have a good how-to or tutorial on integrating ACE reports with an FTP server? I would like to automate some BI reporting on import statistics but am having nothing but trouble trying to get our server and ACE to “play nice”. ========== Answers: For exports, you can have reports emailed to you […]
QUESTION: Does anyone in the membership use an ACE report that contains container numbers? For the life of me I can’t seem to find one. ========== Answer: No container numbers in ACE. ==========
QUESTION: We are a Canadian Company with an established Non Resident IOR for shipments Importing into the USA. Are we able to sign up for an ACE account on the ACE Portal to run ACE reports on our Non Resident USA Import Activity ? ========== Answers: Yes, you can apply for an ACE account. We […]
QUESTION: The ECCN field in this report is blank on filings, regardless of value. 10% of the time the ECCN is present. My exports are EAR99. It is my understanding that to file an export as routed the ECCN is a mandatory field. Is this correct? If the ECCN is not transmitted this will […]
QUESTION: How does the trade community submit a request (and to who) so this report can be modified to allow us to enter a date range for select routed export transactions? *********** answers: There are no filters or input parameters on the AES 203 report for a user to enter a date range. ==================== You […]
QUESTION: I’ve been told by my broker that US Customs no longer accepts these and it must be uploaded into ACE. I’ve combed through the tutorials and the directions but I am still lost to how to actually upload these. Can anyone in the community help? ************ Answers: As a broker, our company does it […]
QUESTION: How does the trade community submit a request (and to who) so this report can be modified to allow us to enter a date range for select routed export transactions? *********** Answers: There are no filters or input parameters on the AES 203 report for a user to enter a date range.
QUESTION: For those filing the EEI/ITN in ACE, do you consider the automated email for each EEI filing to be a record that must be retained for 5 years? Or do you just delete the email? My company saves the emails in PDF format for 5 years, but I have never heard of them being […]
QUESTION: Previously we used a broker to file our entries and now at my current company we are self-filer via ACE. I would like to know whether it is mandatory to sign the 3461 and 7501 docs. My subordinate told me that it is required by CBP for the self-filer to sign both […]
QUESTION: We are a self-filer importer. Recently, we had over twenty entries that needed to file PSC on ACE but we have never done it before. We are going to ask CBP for duty refunds. We discovered we used the wrong HTS # previously and we found a rulings that matches with our products. […]
