TORONTO — U.S. Customs & Border Protection has published a notice in the Federal Register that starting May 24, 2007, truck e-Manifests will be required to be submitted through the ACE program to CBP prior to a truck’s arrival at New York and Michigan-Ontario ports.

Although other systems that have been deemed acceptable by CBP for
transmitting advance truck manifest data, use of systems other than ACE will
no longer satisfy advance electronic cargo information requirements at a port
of entry in Michigan and New York as of May 24.

CBP will be publishing subsequent notices as it phases in the requirement that truck carriers utilize the ACE system to present advance electronic truck cargo information at other ports.

ACE will be phased in as the mandatory EDI system at the ports identified below in the sequential order in which they are listed, which is slightly different than what the agency announced last fall:

The remaining land border ports in North Dakota and all land border ports in Vermont; followed by all land border ports in the states of Idaho and Montana; and finally, all ports in Maine, New Hampshire, and Minnesota.