CHICAGO -- The discussion around including forced labor compliance within Trusted Trader requirements is ongoing after the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee issued recommendations on the subject, said Manuel Garza, director of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism. "Some of them we agreed with, some of them we didn't agree with," he said. "There's probably going to be a couple of new recommendations that COAC is going to provide back to CBP for the next COAC meeting." Garza spoke July 24 at the CBP Trade Symposium.
Top Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee and Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, along with Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, have introduced a reauthorization bill for the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism. The bill includes changes that would improve CBP program management and information sharing and collaboration with industry.
The Mediterranean Shipping Company ship that was found to be carrying a record 20 tons of cocaine was seized by CBP on July 4, the agency said in a July 8 news release. Last month, CBP found and seized over a billion dollars worth of cocaine aboard the MSC Gayane, which put MSC's Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism status into question (see 1906240037).
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A recent CBP seizure of about $1.1 billion worth of cocaine aboard a Mediterranean Shipping Company ship has the company working to regain its status in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program, MSC said an advisory to its customers. MSC said its CTPAT certification was suspended and not revoked. CBP seized the cocaine on the MSC Gayane while it was at the Philadelphia seaport, the agency said in a June 21 news release.
CBP is extending the comment period to July 5 for an existing information collection for applications for Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) and the Trusted Trader Program, it said in a notice. CBP proposes to extend the expiration date of this information collection with no change to the information collected or to the estimated burden hours associated with the collection.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published its spring 2019 regulatory agenda for CBP. There were no new trade-related rulemakings included.
CBP plans to hold the 2019 Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) Conference June 25 and 26, the agency said in an announcement. The agency will release an agenda when it opens registration this month, CBP said.
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CBP finished its update to the Minimum Security Criteria for the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program, the agency said in a news release. CTPAT members will be expected to implement the updated MSC "throughout the remainder of calendar year 2019 and validations on the new MSC will begin in early 2020," it said. An update to the MSC has been under discussion for multiple years (see 1709070010) and the agency began seeking industry input on the changes last summer (see 1807300011).