CBP Lists New Features & Edits of e-Manifest Ocean/Rail

August 2, 2011 by Marie Rapport|Customs and Ports

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued its July 2011 ACE Trade Account Owner Update, which contains information on the new features and edits of the next ACE release, e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail (M1), which is expected to be deployed in pilot form in September.

(See ITT’s Online Archives or 08/02/11 news, 11080153 and 11080154 for other BP summaries from this TAO, which state that the rollout to the ports is expected to begin in October with 3 ports, and that CBP expects to turn off ACS and certain ABI applications for ocean and rail manifests by July 2012.)

CBP states that e-Manifest: Ocean and Rail will:

Enable CBP to place and remove holds at the conveyance, container and master bill level;
Inform carriers which Participating Government Agency (PGA) has held their merchandise;
Extend Broker Download to the sea environment;
Increase number of possible Secondary Notify Parties to 25;
Allow carriers to create list of trade partners who are authorized to use their type two custodial bond through the ACE Portal;
Allow carriers to create and maintain sea conveyance information through the ACE Portal;
Send a status notification of disposition code “95” to Carriers and subsequent Secondary Notify Parties such as Port Authorities when a Paperless Master Inbond (IT, T&E, IE) has been deleted by the carrier;
Provide 12 new reports for rail and sea carriers along with seven new reports for brokers and two for importers;
Provide the ability to share customized reports with any user within the portal account; and
Allow filers to create and maintain rail line release Entry Banks through the ACE Portal.

In addition, new rules and edits will also be in place, and will include the following changes:

A Unique Voyage Indicator can be reported in the original ocean manifest submission;
Place of receipt and foreign port of lading will become mandatory reporting data elements;
Harmonized Tariff (HTS) numbers will be edited for validity to the sixth position.
Valid bonds will be edited when carriers request in-bond moves or Permits to Transfer (PTT);
Manifest unit of measure will be validated in both modes of transportation (currently only in rail);
Hazardous Material Code Qualifier, Flashpoint Temperature, Flashpoint Temperature Unit of Measure and Negative Indicator will be edited for valid data; and
Quantity field will be added to the PTT (TI/356) transaction set to allow a PTT to be optionally reported at less than full bill quantity.