CBP User Fee Committee Recommends Elimination of Cash Fee Collection at Border
The CBP User Fee Advisory Committee (UFAC) made a wide range of recommendations at its most recent meeting, including the elimination of cash fee collections at the border. CBP posted a list of the recommendations from Process Improvements Subcommittee (here) and Financial Assessment and Options Subcommittee (here). The committee also recommended requiring all trucks to use eManifest, because the use of paper manifest means "requiring extensive extra time of Officers in primary inspection to process them while causing delay time of trucks behind them in line," it said.
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CBP should also begin a pilot at one Container Security Initiative port to inspect cargo with "no load decisions" off-shore, said the UFAC. That would protect "the ocean transit lanes, eliminating inspection upon arrival (allowing green lane offloading of containers directly to rail or truck, with the exception of statistical and random selected inspections), as well upon arrival at our shared land border to allow evaluation of outcomes and a cost benefit analysis," it said.The UFAC also said CBP should coordinate authority with the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies at ports that are open full-time. The would allow for cargo processing even when personnel from those agencies aren't present, eliminating the need for overnight and weekend holds, it said.