U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP’s) Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Collections is the final ACE module that supports the enduring mission and priority of facilitating lawful trade and protecting revenue. ACE fulfills CBP’s goal to unite the revenue and trade entry lifecycles within a single window and retires the over 30-year-old Automated Commercial System (ACS). ACE enables end-to-end trade functions from entry to liquidation. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2021, 368 million cargo entries and 20 million export shipments were processed through ACE, totaling $1.7 trillion. Also in FY 2021, ACE’s streamlined processes enabled publicly reportable processing efficiencies valued at an estimated $720.1 million for CBP, up from $358 million in FY 2020, and an estimated $2.25 billion for industry, up from $1.4 billion in FY 2020.
The demands of CBP’s mission and the needs of our trade partners required a modernized system to replace and retire the legacy system. ACE Collections provides the Agency a flexible, secure platform to support the growing complexities of global trade facilitation and enforcement. This modern Cloud-based system enhances user experience through improved IT digital services for CBP, Partner Government Agencies and the trade community.
“Modernizing ACE, a system vital to U.S. trade and the functioning of our economy, is an important achievement long in the making,” said AnnMarie Highsmith, Executive Assistant Commissioner for the CBP Office of Trade. “We are grateful for our partners at the General Services Administration and to all who contributed to making these modernizations a reality.”
ACE also bolsters CBP’s mission to enhance legitimate trade and travel while improving customs enforcement, revenue collection and trade protections. As the nation’s second largest revenue collecting federal agency, CBP utilizes ACE to collect more than $90 billion in duties, taxes and fees annually. Read More→ https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/spotlights/automated-commercial-environment-collections-module-uses-technology
