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No Current FDA Plans to Regulate FTZ Admission, Says Agency Official
February 13, 2014 by Brian Feito|Top News

The Food and Drug Administration has no pending plans to get into regulating admission of goods into foreign-trade zones through electronic filing of CBP Form 214, said John Verbeten, director of the program development and implementation branch of FDA’s Division of Import Operations. Getting involved in the FTZ import process would play havoc with shipments of inadmissible product into FTZs that are then offered for import after being transformed into FDA-approved merchandise, said Verbeten at the National Association Foreign-Trade Zones’ 2014 Regulatory and Legislative Seminar on Feb. 11 in Washington, D.C. Absent overwhelming pressure from industry, FDA would currently rather not get involved, he said.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), CBP CROSS Rulings
CBP Posts FAQs on ACE Cargo Release Pilot
February 10, 2014 by Tim Warren|Customs

CBP posted an updated set of Frequently Asked Questions focused on technical issues in the Automated Commercial Environment Cargo Release pilot program. Cargo Release, previously known as Simplified Entry, allows for filing of shipment information earlier in the import process and was recently expanded to include ocean and rail transportation modes in addition to air (see 14013112).

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)
ITDS Board Reports Momentum in Data Sharing Efforts with Other Agencies
January 29, 2014 by Tim Warren|Top News

CBP and other agencies took major strides in FY 2013 toward improving trade data processing, said the International Trade Data System (ITDS) Board of Directors in a report to Congress. The statutorily required yearly report outlines progress on deploying a "single window" to automate Participating Government Agencies' (PGA) collection and processing of required import and export information. An increase in finished memorandums of understanding (MOU) between CBP and other agencies was among the notable updates since the previous report.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), Forced Labor
PGA Message Set Pilot Start Date Pushed to March, Few Responses So Far
January 28, 2014 by Tim Warren|Top News

The Participating Government Agency (PGA) Message Set Pilot program is now in the "pre-testing" phase and production is not expected to begin until March, beginning with the Newark and Long Beach ports, said Roy Chaudet, who is the Environment Protection Agency's (EPA) lead on the joint pilot with CBP. The pilot was slated to start earlier this month, according to the Federal Register notice (see 13121219).