CBP posted its draft agenda and other documents for the upcoming Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of Customs and Border Protection (COAC) meeting on Feb. 20, which include the "foundational principles required to position the U.S. government to efficiently manage strategic cross border issues in a manner that reduces the cost of doing business" related to exports. Other documents include draft recommendations, and other documents on trade modernization, the global supply chain, trade enforcement and other topics. The draft agenda is (here). The principles for a "One U.S. Government at the Border Cooperation for Exports" is (here).
CBP's official notice beginning a pilot program that would test a combined Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) and Importer Self Assessment (ISA) was delayed in order to include information on participation by other government agencies, said CBP in a document released ahead of the Feb. 20 Advisory Committee on the Commercial Operations of CBP (COAC) meeting. CBP said in November it planned to officially request pilot participants for the program, known as "Trusted Trader," by the end of 2013 (see 13111920). Another COAC working group said it is working to develop recommendations for customs broker permitting updates by May.
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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.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related issues:
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).
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The Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) for CBP will next meet Feb. 20 at 1 p.m. in Washington, CBP said in a notice.
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The CBP Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) Cargo Release pilot will be expanded to include ocean and rail modes of transportation, the agency said in a notice. The agency will seek new participants in the pilot program, which previously only applied to air transportation, and add three optional data elements for rail and sea entry filers, it said.