CBP is seeking comments by May 20 on 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 by 60 days with no change to the information collected or to the estimated burden hours associated with the collection.
CBP plans to mostly pursue Importer Security Filing-5 requirements noncompliance through liquidated damage claims, said Craig Clark, CBP's director of the Border Security and Trade Compliance Division, during a March 15 webinar. Clark said this differs from the agency's enforcement approach for ISF-10. "The common sense approach with ISF-5 is kind of the flip side of the common sense approach with ISF-10," he said. During the webinar, Clark, along with Sandra Langford-Coty, director of operational development at A.N.Deringer, and Lisa Gelsomino, CEO of Avalon Risk Management, explored multiple scenarios and what would be required from an ISF perspective.
Elizabeth Schmelzinger, who oversaw the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism programs at CBP’s Office of Field Operations, has retired, a CBP spokesman said. The agenda for the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee meeting on Feb. 27 lists Manny Garza as "Director, Office of Field Operations, CTPAT."
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) for CBP will next meet Feb. 27 in Washington, D.C., CBP said in a notice.
CBP won’t go forward with its planned deployment of new Form 5106 until at least March 16, an agency official said on a call with members of the trade community. The agency has not yet set a date for the release, and may push the transition back even further depending on the level of readiness, he said on the Feb. 7 call. Testing is ongoing on the new Form 5106 in CBP’s ACE Certification environment, after deployment of the latest version of the importer ID form was delayed partly due to the recent partial federal government shutdown (see 1901170046).
The United Automobile Workers union would like to see vehicles left out of trade negotiations entirely when Japan and the U.S. sit down to craft a free-trade deal. Josh Nassar, UAW legislative director, told the International Trade Commission that Japan has no tariffs on imported cars, yet its imports are just 7 percent of sales. From all countries, Japan imported 11.1 billion in vehicles in 2017, according to World's Top Exports. In 2017, the Commerce Department said the U.S. imported $51 billion in Japanese-built vehicles. The ITC also heard from the milk lobby, the American Chemistry Council and the American Apparel and Footwear Association during its hearing Dec. 6.
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The CBP Office of Field Operations proposes to add a "social compliance" piece to the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) program as part of the effort to stop imports made with forced labor, it said in a strategy document. CBP released the document ahead of the Dec. 5 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting in Herndon, Virginia. According to draft recommendations from the COAC Secure Trade Lanes Subcommittee, adoption of the forced labor strategy document will be recommended.
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) for CBP will next meet Dec. 5 in Herndon, Virginia, CBP said in a notice.
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