House Appoves ACE Funding

The House of Representatives has passed its version of the Treasury Appropriations Bill, which includes funding for the Customs Service’s new Automated Commercial Environment.

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The bill now goes to the Senate, which is not expected to vote on it for a few weeks.

The House version includes $130 million for ACE, an additional $123 million to prop up the aging Automated Commercial System which ACE replaces and $5 million for the International Trade Data System.

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ITS is the umbrella system under which ACE will operate.