ACE Reporting for Export and Import
Understand why and how to use ACE Reports as a key tool to boost your company's presence in the global trade community.
Essential Details
AIAG collaborates with experts at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and partners around the world to help our members navigate and reap the benefits of important trade tools, including the ACE Secure Data Portal.
What is ACE?
The trade community reports imports and exports through a system called the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), which allows the U.S. government to determine admissibility. The system applies CBP policy, technology, and automation to facilitate the global exchange of safe and legitimate goods.
ACE Portal
The ACE Secure Data Portal offers users real-time access to trade data and serves as the primary system for the international trade community to connect with CBP, trade partners, and partner government agencies via a single, central access point. This approach facilitates faster, more efficient processing of imports and exports, while reducing redundancy and operational costs.
ACE Portal Account Benefits
- Access AD/CVD case management and message information database
- Access importer security filing progress reports
- Access real-time transactional data through the reports tool to identify and evaluate compliance issues
- View account revenue data updated hourly
- Access all submitted data through ACE reporting tools for tracking and analysis
- Retrieve cargo release and entry summary data refreshed nightly
- Generate blanket declarations for entry summary processing and nationwide visibility
- Enroll in periodic monthly statements and customize payment schedules
- Identify unauthorized filers
- Monitor periodic monthly statements as they are being built
- Proactively monitor trade compliance and identify discrepancies
- Receive, respond to, and monitor CBP Forms 28, 29, and 4647
Visit the ACE Portal
CBP continues to modernize the online platform that houses the ACE Portal at ace.cbp.gov and pledges to synchronize the data it hosts along the way.
Questions? Contact the ACE Account Service at (866) 530-4172 or use the platform’s chatbot feature.
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Take an ACE demonstration class
Once each year, AIAG offers ACE reporting courses on export and import, led by an expert from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Trade.
About the courses:
- Each of these two-hour demonstrations provides attendees with the skills and knowledge to navigate the ACE Report tool and take advantage of its various reporting capabilities.
- The courses are regularly updated to help attendees stay informed as CBP modernizes the ACE Portal over multiple phases.
- The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America (NCBFAA) grants 2.5 CCS/CES credits per demonstration.