38924 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 157 / Wednesday, August 16, 2017 / Notices 

notices regarding the test remain in 

effect. 

A. Mandatory Use of ACE for Electronic 

Filing of FTZ Admission Applications 

This document announces that 

beginning on September 16, 2017, all 

test participants must file electronic 

FTZ admission applications in ACE. All 

other filers will continue to submit FTZ 

admission applications to CBP on paper. 

As of September 16, 2017, ACS is 

decommissioned for the electronic filing 

of these applications. 

B. Clarification 

This document announces a 

clarification to the notice published in 

the Federal Register on August 19, 

2005. The list of data elements which 

test participants must provide CBP 

when filing an electronic FTZ 

admission application contained in that 

notice inadvertently failed to include 

the data element ‘‘Zone ID’’ which 

replaced the ‘‘Zone Number and 

Location (Address)’’ requirement on the 

paper CBP Form 214 (Question 1). This 

notice clarifies that the list of data 

elements required for the electronic FTZ 

admission application must include the 

‘‘Zone ID’’. Test participants have been 

submitting this data element since the 

inception of the test program. 

Further, this document reminds test 

participants that they must provide the 

data elements ‘‘Steel Import License 

Number’’ and ‘‘Kimberley Process 

Certificate Number’’ to CBP, as 

applicable, when filing an electronic 

FTZ admission application, as required 

by CSMS message (CSMS #14–000641) 

dated December 15, 2014. Under 19 CFR 

12.145 and 360.101(c), the steel import 

license number needs to be provided on 

CBP Form 214 at the time of filing under 

19 CFR part 146, in the case of 

merchandise admitted into an FTZ. The 

Kimberley Process Certificate must be 

presented in connection with an 

importation of rough diamonds into an 

FTZ and exportation out of an FTZ if 

demanded by a CBP official according to 

31 CFR 592.404 and 592.301. Pursuant 

to 31 CFR 592.301 Note 3, when making 

entry of a shipment of rough diamonds 

via ABI, the customs broker, importer or 

filer must submit the unique identifying 

number of the Kimberley Process 

Certificate accompanying the shipment. 

C. Extension of Program 

The test has been running 

continuously since March 26, 2007. CBP 

announces in this notice that it is 

extending the test until a decision is 

reached to implement the program on a 

permanent basis and/or to conclude the 

test. The new test program is intended 

to encourage greater participation in the 

test program by the trade and thereby 

provide CBP with more meaningful data 

by which to assess the feasibility of 

implementing the program on a 

permanent basis. CBP will inform the 

public of its decision to conclude the 

test program, and if the test program 

was successful, to implement it on a 

permanent basis, by way of 

announcement in the Federal Register. 

Dated: August 10, 2017. 

Todd C. Owen, 

Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of 

Field Operations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

Automated Commercial Environment 

(ACE) Becoming the Sole CBPAuthorized Electronic Data 

Interchange (EDI) System for 

Processing Duty Deferral Entry and 

Entry Summary Filings 

AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection, Department of Homeland 

Security. 

ACTION: General notice. 

SUMMARY: On August 30, 2016, U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register announcing plans to make the 

Automated Commercial Environment 

(ACE) the sole electronic data 

interchange (EDI) system authorized by 

the Commissioner of CBP for processing 

electronic drawback and duty deferral 

entry and entry summary filings. The 

date for the changes announced in that 

notice had been delayed indefinitely. 

This notice announces the new date for 

the transition of duty deferral entry and 

entry summary filings. The transition 

for processing electronic drawback 

filings will be announced in the Federal 

Register at a later date. 

DATES: As of September 16, 2017, ACE 

will be the sole CBP-authorized EDI 

system for processing duty deferral 

entry and entry summary filings, and 

the Automated Commercial System 

(ACS) will no longer be a CBPauthorized EDI system for processing 

these filings. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions related to this notice may be 

emailed to ASKACE@cbp.dhs.gov with 

the subject line identifier reading ‘‘ACS 

to ACE Duty Deferral Entry and Entry 

Summary Filings Transition.’’ 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 

30, 2016, U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) published a notice in 

the Federal Register (81 FR 59644) 

announcing plans to make the 

Automated Commercial Environment 

(ACE) the sole electronic data 

interchange (EDI) system authorized by 

the Commissioner of CBP for processing 

electronic drawback and duty deferral 

entry and entry summary filings, with 

an effective date of October 1, 2016. The 

document also announced that, on 

October 1, 2016, the Automated 

Commercial System (ACS) would no 

longer be a CBP-authorized EDI system 

for purposes of processing these 

electronic filings. Finally, the notice 

announced a name change for the ACE 

filing code for duty deferral and the 

creation of a new ACE filing code for all 

electronic drawback filings, replacing 

the six distinct drawback codes 

previously filed in ACS. On October 3, 

2016, CBP published a notice in the 

Federal Register (81 FR 68023) 

announcing that the effective date for 

these changes would be delayed until 

further notice. Thereafter, on December 

12, 2016, CBP published a notice in the 

Federal Register (81 FR 89486) 

announcing that the new effective date 

for the transition would be January 14, 

2017. On January 17, 2017, CBP 

published an additional notice in the 

Federal Register (82 FR 4900) delaying 

the effective date for the transition until 

further notice. Then, on June 8, 2017, 

CBP published a notice in the Federal 

Register (82 FR 26698) announcing that 

the new effective date for the transition 

would be July 8, 2017. Thereafter, on 

June 30, 2017, CBP published a notice 

in the Federal Register (82 FR 29910) 

delaying the effective date for the 

transition until further notice. 

This notice announces that beginning 

September 16, 2017, ACE will become 

the sole CBP-authorized EDI system for 

duty deferral entry and entry summary 

filings, and ACS will no longer be a 

CBP-authorized EDI system for purposes 

of processing these electronic filings. 

The transition date for processing 

electronic drawback filings will be 

announced in a separate Federal 

Register Notice at a later date. 

Dated: August 11, 2017. 

Kevin K. McAleenan, 

Acting Commissioner, U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection. 

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