ACE Mandate Expanded to Ports of Entry in California, Texas and New Mexico

Friday, January 19, 2007

Washington, DC—U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) today announced in the Federal Register that, effective 90 days from the publication date of the notice, truck carriers entering the United States at any land border ports of entry in the states of California, Texas and New Mexico will be required to present advance electronic cargo information through the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Truck Manifest System.

ACE is the next generation of CBP technology designed to protect the United States from terrorism while ensuring the country’s economic vitality by expediting lawful trade. The electronic submission, called an e-manifest, is an electronically filed version of the paper manifest carriers are already required to submit before crossing the U.S. border.