CBP interim guidance on processing in-bond transactions 

October 26:  The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) released an in-bond processing help document [PDF 34 KB] as interim guidance and “mitigation scenarios” to assist carriers and/or their filers to process in-bond transactions.

According to the CBP release (CSMS #12-000438, October 26, 2012), when ACE replaced AMS, items were designed to improve the tracking of in-bond shipments and to provide that shipments reported as “arrived” were actually arriving at the intended ports of entry. There were three changes that were implemented in ACE:


  • To require that in-bond status would be set to arrived when the entire in- bond transaction was accounted for
  • To prevent the filing of subsequent in-bonds (in-bonds filed to move deconsolidated freight from the first in-bond arrival port) until the in-bond is in arrived status
  • To prevent sending of release notifications (known as “1C message”) until the master bill of lading associated to the in-bond was arrived at the destination port of entry

During the interim period, CBP users at ports of entry can provide assistance with arrival at the in-bond level if issues arrive.



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