AMS Ends ACE Pilot on Marketing Order Data for Fruits, Vegetables, Specialty Crops

The Agricultural Marketing Service is ending its ACE pilot test of electronic filing for Section 8e notifications of arrival of fruits, vegetables and specialty crops subject to marketing orders. “CBP and AMS have evaluated the transmission and analysis of the trade data related to AMS responsibilities and have found the pilot successful. As such, the ACE [Partner Government Agency (PGA)] Message Set is deemed to have the operational capabilities necessary to electronically collect the section 8e data required by AMS, and AMS’s [Compliance Enforcement Management System (CEMS)] is deemed to have the operational capabilities necessary to analyze that data,” the notice said. The pilot had been running since 2015 (see 1508050019).