CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
With CBP regulations on new drawback procedures still not issued, software developers are growing concerned about whether they will be ready for the new system’s upcoming deployment in ACE. CBP has pledged to have capabilities in place for the new Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act drawback provisions on Feb. 24, but though the agency has found funding and begun its own programming efforts, software developers have been unable to start coding, leaving little time for testing before the deadline, several developers said in interviews.
Bill Would Require USDA Regulations That Could Expand Organic Certification to Include More Products
Rep. John Faso, R-N.Y., introduced legislation Sept. 28 that would require the Agriculture Department to issue regulations within one year of enactment to limit “the type of operations” excluded from National Organic Program certification. The bill would require annual reports from USDA to Congress starting March 1, 2019, describing National Organic Program activities related to all “domestic and overseas” investigations and compliance actions taken during the preceding year. Further, H.R. 3871 would authorize $5 million from the Commodity Credit Corporation account to support modernization of trade and transaction certificates “to ensure full traceability without unduly hindering trade, such as through an electronic trade document exchange system,” according to the bill text. Additionally, the bill would give the agriculture secretary access to available data from cross-border documentation systems, including ACE, administered by other federal agencies, in organics certification investigations.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The National Marine Fisheries Service announced the beginning of an ACE pilot to test filing of data required under the Seafood Import Monitoring Program for high-risk seafood. The pilot, which “will commence after” Oct. 1 and run until further notice, will be open to all customs brokers and importer self-filers for all commodities and all modes of transportation, NMFS said. Electronic filing of SIMP data is mandatory for certain high-risk species beginning on Jan. 1, 2018.
Full deployment of export manifest capabilities in ACE is expected to automatically connect manifest and export commodity filings, and should help resolve current disputes between freight forwarders and carriers regarding responsibility for filing and correlating those different information sets, government officials said Oct. 3 during a Bureau of Industry and Security export control policy conference. CBP recently expanded pre-departure export manifest filing pilots for exports in ACE to more participants, and extended the testing periods to Aug. 10, 2018, for air cargo, Sept. 21, 2018, for vessel cargo and Oct. 9, 2018, for rail cargo (see 1708110020).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP on Sept. 29 posted draft Customs and Trade Automated Interface Requirements (CATAIR) guidelines for drawback procedures under the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2016, it said in a message. The draft CATAIR is meant “to facilitate preparations for programming in advance of the forthcoming rulemaking,” CBP said. “The reader should be advised that this technical document is considered a DRAFT and is subject to revision before a final version is provided. Any decisions a reader makes based on this draft document are taken voluntarily and with the understanding that the draft may be revised,” it said.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: