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PGA Filing Requirements for Ag Products Set to Expand as More USDA Message Sets Come Online
May 4, 2021 by Brian Feito|Top News

The Agricultural Marketing Service has secured funding for its Section 8(e) partner government agency (PGA) message set for imports of specialty crops, and now awaits CBP programming before it can move forward with full implementation, said Brian Barber of Wilson International during a panel discussion at the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America annual conference May 3.

Topics:Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
CBP Working on Proposal to Require 36 Hours of Continuing Education Every 3 Years, Leonard Says
May 4, 2021 by Tim Warren|Top News

CBP has set a "very aggressive schedule" for moving ahead with a proposal to require 36 hours of continuing education for customs brokers every three-year period, said John Leonard, acting executive assistant commissioner for trade, while speaking remotely to the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America conference May 3. Some factors involved in the timing are out of CBP's control, but "we've got some very highly placed advocates within the Department of Homeland Security that are hopefully going to work their magic with the Office of Management and Budget," he said.

CBP to Update Collections Process for Imports of Alcoholic Beverages
April 28, 2021 |Customs

CBP will update its collections process for “deferred payments of internal revenue taxes owed on consumption entries of distilled spirits, wines, and beer imported,” the agency said in a notice released April 28. The main change is “the harmonization of the determination of the due date for deferred tax payments with the entry summary date,” it said. CBP will also consolidate deferred tax entry bills on a semimonthly basis into one bill viewable in ACE. CBP is also “removing current policy restrictions on the filing of entries with deferred taxes and eliminating the now unnecessary Semi-Monthly Excise Tax Form (Greater than 50) for importers who pay deferred taxes through Pay.gov,” it said. Those changes will take effect May 1. The agency will also eliminate a “lesser-used payment method available through Fedwire,” as of July 1, it said.

CBP Considering 'Incentives' to Give Agency More Supply Chain Visibility
April 26, 2021 by Tim Warren|Top News

CBP is looking into making admissibility decisions earlier on for importers that give the agency more information about their supply chains, Garrett Wright, director of trade modernization at CBP, told an April 22 meeting of the Commerce Department's Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness. The agency is looking at some broad changes to its processes as part of the CBP work on the 21st Century Customs Framework (see 2011120010). The effort's five main “bucket areas” include "updates that improve the timeliness and the quality of data that we receive or is made available to us so we can reengineer our entry processes so we are able to clear lawful trade more quickly,” he said.