From our friends at NCBFAA and Cindy Allen, Founder and CEO of Trade Force Multiplier, and former Executive Director of the ACE Business Office at Customs and Border Protection:
Understanding the PGA Cargo Release Responses (SO70)
The following chart was created to understand the expected initial messages that are auto-generated by CBP as a response to the transmission of a PGA regulated entry.
| Initial SO70 (generated by CBP)* | |
| EPA- ODS, VNE, PS1, PS2, PS3 | DATA UNDER PGA REVIEW |
| EPA- TS1, TS2 | MAY PROCEED |
| FSIS | HOLD INTACT |
| FDA | DATA UNDER PGA REVIEW |
| AMS | HOLD INTACT for ‘MO1’. All others are ‘MAY PROCEED’ |
| ATF | MAY PROCEED |
| NHTSA | MAY PROCEED (even if Bucket 2 rule fires) |
| NMFS | MAY PROCEED |
| TTB | MAY PROCEED |
| APHIS LACEY | MAY PROCEED |
| APHIS- AVS | HOLD INTACT (Equines only) |
| DEA | MAY PROCEED (even if Bucket 2 rule first) |
| DDTC | MAY PROCEED |
*In the case of a disclaimed entry for ANY agency, there will be no SO70 generated to trade.
*The information that is received in ACE is not transmitted to the PGA until 5 days prior to the shipment’s arrival. Filers should not expect to receive anything other than an “UNDER REVIEW: response in the SO70 record until 5 days prior to arrival. At that point the edit checks and auto review will happen at the agency within their system.
For any agency, if at least one edit check or auto review at the agency creates an issue for the PGA that they want to review before issuing further responses, (known as a bucket-2 rule) then an “UNDER REVIEW” response in the SO70 Message will be sent to Trade, otherwise trade will receive a MAY PROCEED in the SO70 message. There are some exceptions to this process.