The following is provided by U.S. Customs Border Protection
On June 7, 2015, the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) will become the system of record for Air manifests. In preparation for this deployment there will be outages to ACS as well as ACE which will impact all modes of transportation. Please see the detailed list of systems outages and times of the outage listed below.
Air AMS: will go offline at 3:00 PM EST, Saturday, June 6th and Air Manifests will be brought online in ACE by 5:00 AM EST, Sunday, June 7th.
ACS Entry/Entry Summary: ACS will go offline at 3:00 PM EST, Saturday, June 6th and will be brought back online no later than 5:00 PM EST, Saturday, June 6th. Â Releases will be unable to be transmitted during the outage.
During the June 6, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM outage window, CBP will not process FTZ Admissions/e214s (All FZ and FT APP ID’s) or FDA Prior Notice WP transactions.
Air in-bond Transactions: Filers should not send QX/WX ABI in-bond transactions after 3:00 PM EST, Saturday, June 6th. After 3:00 PM June 6th, filers should wait until 5:00 AM EST, Sunday, June 7th to submit air in-bond ABI requests via the new QP/WP transaction.
Air Manifest Query: Filers should stop using the ABI IN transaction to query airway bills as of 3:00 PM EST, Saturday, June 6th. Filers should use the ACE ABI CQ Query starting at 5:00 AM EST, Sunday, June 7th.
All messages transmitted after Saturday, June 6th at 3:00 PM EST will be held and processed once that component of the system is brought back online.
ACE OUTAGE WINDOW BEGINNING 7:00 PM, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015
ACE Ocean, Rail, Truck Manifest and ACE Entry Summary: ACE Multi-Modal Manifest and ACE Entry Summary will go offline between 7:00 PM and 8:00 PM EST, Saturday June 6th and will be brought back online no later than 5:00 AM EST, Sunday June 7th. Â ACE Manifest information will not be able to be filed during the outage.