The government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices for Nov. 4 (note that some may also be given separate headlines):
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., will reintroduce do-not-track legislation that would give American consumers the power to tell companies, including data brokers, that they don't want their information collected. He announced it during a Senate Privacy Subcommittee hearing on whether information held by data brokers is secure.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., will reintroduce do-not-track legislation that would give American consumers the power to tell companies, including data brokers, that they don't want their information collected. He announced it during a Senate Privacy Subcommittee hearing on whether information held by data brokers is secure.
BALTIMORE -- As efforts to facilitate trade and enhance border security continue into the future, a key factor in their success will be the trade industry’s and the government’s willingness to invest resources, said government and industry officials during a panel discussion at CBP’s East Coast Trade Symposium on Nov. 4. Continued automation and international harmonization will require a commitment from industry and the government to change business practices and educate stakeholders, they said.
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The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America named Ken Bargteil, who recently retired from Kuehne + Nagel (see 1510060056), as chancellor of the NCBFAA Educational Institute, the NCBFAA said (here).
The Bureau of Industry and Security is still striving to create a single export licensing agency with harmonized applications and terms in the coming years, but that effort won’t happen during the Obama administration, said Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Kevin Wolf, at the 2015 BIS Update conference on Nov. 2. BIS officials have repeatedly touted the merits of that harmonization (see 1507220021), claiming existing differences between the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations create an arbitrary burden on traders.
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America called for further CBP caution ahead of the planned Feb. 28 transition date for use of the Automated Commercial Environment, the trade group said in an "open letter to importers and exporters." The agency is "challenged in having too few trade technical resources that are available to support the transition into the new system, restricting the ability of brokers to successfully implement the ACE system," the group said in the letter (here). The letter also includes a list of what the NCBFAA considers to be criteria for a successful implementation date.
The CBP Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations has “grave concerns” about the ongoing pilot of Food and Drug Administration filing in the Automated Commercial environment, it said in a memo posted to the CBP website Nov. 2 (here). FDA is “not piloting reality,” instead testing an artificial process where importers must go through multiple steps to pre-validate shipment data, said the memo, which also detailed PGA filing issues related to the other agencies. With the Feb. 28 mandatory date for FDA filing fast approaching, FDA “needs to pilot real data in order to adequately identify issues and test the success of their ACE deployment,” said the COAC.
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