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NCBFAA Urges Grace Period for FSVP, Optional Data Elements, Beginning May 30
April 24, 2017 |FDA

The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America is urging the Food and Drug Administration to allow a grace period for new Foreign Supplier Verification Program requirements that begin to take effect May 30, the NCBFAA said. “Given the complexity of the rule and widespread confusion in the trade, NCBFAA is urging FDA to allow a period where some or all of the new data elements are optional and to allow FSVP importers time to develop their supplier verification programs before enforcement begins,” the association said in an email to members. NCBFAA President Geoff Powell has been in contact with FDA's director of Enforcement and Import Operations, Doug Stearn, and has requested a meeting in early May to discuss further the need for a "soft landing" on May 30.” Stearn recently said FDA will be “mindful” of the challenges posed by the new requirements, which include submission of new data elements in ACE on the identity of the FSVP importer (see 1704040024). The May 30 compliance date applies to certain raw agricultural commodities and products from larger suppliers subject to human food preventive controls regulations (see 1602120038).

CBP, FDA Updating ACE Flags
April 21, 2017 |Customs

CBP and the Food and Drug Administration are updating the ACE Partner Government Agency flags for FDA requirements, CBP said in a CSMS message (here). "Specifically, the tariff numbers that had flags for [Automated Commercial Service Other Government Agency] of FD0 are getting ACE PGA requirements updates to have either no FDA flag, FD1 (FDA May Be Required) or FD2 (FDA Required)," it said. CBP also provided a spreadsheet of FDA Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) codes with associated flags in ACE (here).

CBP, Johns Hopkins Working on New Import Data Targeting Project
April 20, 2017 |Top News

CBP's Commercial Targeting Enforcement Directorate and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) are working together on a project to use "commercial trade data to enhance and identify pattern identification, entity links, and anomalies within large datasets," the Department of Homeland Security said. The project was mentioned within a newly released DHS 2016 data mining report to Congress (here). The project, called Socrates, "was initiated to determine the analytical abilities JHU/APL could apply to trade data analytics" and "during Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, a pilot test was completed by JHU/APL using import data," DHS said.

Topics:Automated Commercial Environment (ACE)