Menlo makes ACE history

Menlo makes ACE history    Menlo Worldwide Trade Services said on June 29 it became the first company ever to file an entry in the Automated Commercial Environment.
   U.S. Customs and Border Protection is developing ACE to replace its outdated customs filing and trade communication system. ACE has been under planning and development for several years and is not expected to be fully functional until later this decade. Customs is conducting a pilot test with 41 select importers and 17 customs brokers of the new periodic monthly payment function as the agency moves to account-based instead of transaction-based processing of customs entries. The new streamlined system is supposed to give Customs inspectors access to an importers total import history in a single screen shot.
   Menlo serves as a certified broker for one of the eligible importers in the test phase.