CBP's Regulations Office Currently Drafting Broker Regulations Rewrite, CBP Official Says
CBP’s long awaited rewrite of the Part 111 customs broker regulations is currently in the drafting process at the agency’s Office of Regulations and Rulings, said Jerry Malmo, director of the CBP Civil Enforcement Division, at the March 1 meeting…
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of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee. Malmo’s division, which is the “policy office for the broker regulations,” has taken the 37 recommendations previously issued by the COAC (see 1604250011) and, “to the extent that we could or decided we were able to,” incorporated them into a policy statement it has given to the regulations office, he said. The regulations office then takes the policy direction “in formulating the regulations,” he said. The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America recently said the Part 111 rewrite is on hold “indefinitely” and the proposal won’t be seen until at least 2018 (see 1702270015).