1. WMTA Meeting Presentation Prepared by: CASAS INTERNATIONAL BROKERAGE, INC. April 16, 2014

2. TOPIC ACE Broker and Importer Compliance Program 04/16/2014

3. Important Dates ACE Status – Is Your Broker Ready? Filing Entries in ACE Periodic Monthly Statement Post Summary Correction Requests and Notices Reports Edits Recordkeeping Exports ACE Terminology Questions Agenda

4. Ace System Due Dates: April 5, 2014 Exports / AES All electronic export data must be transmitted via ACE Exports = ACE AES : April 5, 2014

5. AES System for Exports: AES moved to ACE April 5, 2014 Single automated export processing platform Manifest Commodity Licensing Export control Export targeting Post departure filing (Option 4) Changing from 10 days to 5 days

6. Mandated use of ACE for all electronic manifest filings. All electronic import manifest data must be transmitted via ACE Truck, Ocean, Rail Air – Deployment D – 1/3/2015 By May 1, 2015

7. By November 1, 2015 Mandated use of electronic Cargo Release and associated Entry Summary filings – All data associated with release of cargo, including PGA interactions, and their associated entry summaries, must be transmitted via ACE: Cargo Release = Simplified Entry = CF3461 Entry Summary = CF7501

8. By October1, 2016 Mandated use of ACE for all remaining portions of the CBP cargo process. Monthly Entry Summary Liquidation Protest Drawback

9. November 1, 2015 Mandated use of ACE

10. Ace Progress Report Website: http://www.cbp.gov/sites/defaul t/files/documents/ACEopedia% 20February%202014.pdfhttp://www.cbp.gov/sites/defaul t/files/documents/ACEopedia% 20February%202014.pdf

11. Ace terminology: ACE – Automated Commercial Environment CBP’s new system ACS – Automated Commercial System CBP’s old system ACE will replace ACS ABI – Automated Broker Interface The pipeline between broker/self filer and ACS The pipeline between broker/self filer and ACE ABI is not going away

12. Ace terminology: Agile Development New method used by CBP Smaller pieces of functionality more frequently More flexible Industry standard “Single Window” 47 Federal agencies/ Participating Government Agencies (PGA) Hundreds of paper based forms Streamline trade process ACE will become the “Single Window” Primary system to report imports and exports World Customs Organization

13. Ace Entry Filing: Simplified Entry Now electronic “ACE Cargo Release” Separation of commercial and manifest data Notification of an issue before arrival Release before arrival Single accept/reject message for CBP and PGAs When Currently available for Air Testing Ocean and Rail – FR Vol. 79, No. 22 2/3/2014

14. Ace Entry Filing: Document Imaging System (DIS) Submit document images by EDI (ABI), e-mail or ACE portal Submit at time of manifest, entry, summary, post summary… Documents Commercial Invoice & Worksheet Packing List PGA Documents EPA, APHIS, NOAA, FSIS, DCMA, CDC… And many more

15. Periodic Monthly Statement, aka PMS: Pay duties monthly 15 th working date of month following release If you don’t, your broker will!

16. THANK YOU Questions: Sylvia Casas s.casas@casasinternational.com 619-710-4619 619-395-3037 www.casasinternational.com