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The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) will not move forward with a proposal under the 21st Century Customs Framework (21CCF) to make ocean vessel manifest data automatically confidential, according to a report from the 21CCF task force released by the COAC Nov. 28. The provision is one of several listed by the task force in the report that the COAC will no longer advance after recent discussions with CBP.
CBP is adding three new benefits related to forced labor in its Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism Trade Compliance program, CTPAT Director Manual Garza said in a message to the trade community posted to the CBP website Nov. 18. Effective immediately, CBP will provide “to the greatest extent possible and practical,” front-of-line admissibility review, the ability to hold instead of redeliver goods suspected of forced labor and the ability to move shipments detained under a withhold release order to a bonded facility.
CBP's Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) will next meet Dec. 7 in College Park, Maryland, CBP said in a notice. Comments are due in writing by Dec. 2.
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CBP on Nov. 1 posted the latest version of its Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) Trade Compliance program handbook. Version 2 updates the initial release of the handbook in July by revising language on the disclosure benefit and adding new sections of program requirements, including those related to forced labor announced in August (see 2208220040).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The Part 111 broker regulations in the works for five years are about to be released (see 2209140051) and National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America Customs Committee Chair Mary Jo Muoio that said there are aspects of the rules that the group welcomes, and others that it dreads.
CBP and Brazil's customs authority, Receita Federal, are mutually recognizing each other's Authorized Economic Operator programs with a Mutual Recognition Arrangement.
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