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CBP will expand its preliminary hold notification benefit for Trade Compliance program members of the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) to include withhold release orders (WROs) and forced labor findings, the agency announced in a May 30 letter to CTPAT participants. Preliminary hold notifications were first offered as a benefit for Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) holds back in March (see 2304260045).
CBP is providing an additional benefit to Trade Compliance program members of its Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, the agency said in a letter to CTPAT members posted to the agency’s website April 26. Since March 5, the agency has been offering preliminary notifications of Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act holds, CBP said.
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The U.S. and Mexican governments have reportedly made progress toward better aligning their Authorized Economic Operation programs, according to a "mid-year review" fact sheet on the U.S.-Mexico High-Level Economic Dialogue, released April 19. In the last six months, CBP provided training for the Mexican AEO team and in February, the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism and AEO Mexico representatives worked together to modify the Minimum-Security Criteria requirements for Mexico’s AEO program, which Mexico anticipates will be published in April after its legal review and approval by the Mexican Secretariat for Home Affairs, the fact sheet said.
CBP is looking to expand the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) to include e-commerce, agency officials said at the 2023 Trade Facilitation and Cargo Security Summit on April 18. As part of that effort, CBP has begun to have conversations with a subsection of members of the Section 321 data pilot to better understand e-commerce and how it compares with a traditional supply chain, Bryant Van Buskirk, director of CBP's Los Angeles CTPAT Office, said.
CBP is working on a new, “custom-built” portal for its Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program, including a new dashboard that will give CTPAT users insight into their examination rates and cost savings, said Manuel Garza, CTPAT director. The agency hopes to roll out the portal in phases beginning later this year.
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The Senate Homeland Security Committee passed the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) Pilot Program Act on an 11-1 vote March 29. The bipartisan bill would allow CBP to extend CTPAT to up to 20 third-party logistics providers, both asset-based and non-asset based (see 2303150074). Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Tom Carper, D-Del., are the co-sponsors of the bill.
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