CBP Posts COAC Documents for Jan. 13 Meeting, Broker Regulations Work Group Planned
CBP posted its agenda and some other agency documents for the upcoming Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection (COAC) meeting on Jan. 13. Among the posted items is a subcommittee status report from the Office of Trade Relations (here). The COAC will form a new working group to make recommendations for customs broker regulations updates and to "promote transparency and collaboration among stakeholders with equities in 19 CFR 111," said CBP in the report. "With these recommendations, CBP will publish" a notice "describing the anticipated changes and solicit comments." The agenda is (here).
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The COAC Trusted Trader subcommittee plans to present three recommendations on movement toward a Trusted Trader program, which was originally conceived as a combination of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism and Importer Self-Assessment programs but has since moved away from certain ISA processes (see 1511040066). "COAC recommends that CBP formalize a vision of an enhanced Trusted Trader Program," it said. "The enhanced Trusted Trader Program should consider inclusion of partner government agencies, flexibility in participation based on supply chain roles (importer, exporter, carrier, etc.), and be built on a foundation of national and international interoperability to provide facilitation to global supply chains."
The group also recommends that CBP communicate "information on participation eligibility, application processes, validation processes, reporting requirements and incentives available to the trade for participating in these programs." The agency should also release a timeline on plans for extending the Trusted Trader pilot incentives to members of C-TPAT and ISA, said the working group. CBP also posted the below documents:
Trade Enforcement and Revenue
Export
- Exports Option 4 Issue Paper (here)
- Electronic Export Manifest Pilots Issue Paper (here)
- Export Subcommittee Trade Executive Summary (here)
Global Supply Chain
Trusted Trader
- Trusted Trader Subcommittee Trade Executive Summary (here)