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Funding Schemes for Future ITDS Development Under Consideration at DHS, OMB
July 28, 2016 |Customs

There are ongoing discussions of how to best pay for future development of the International Trade Data System and ACE, said Christa Brzozowski, deputy assistant secretary for trade policy at the Department of Homeland Security. "We've been having some interesting discussions with [the Office of Management and Budget] on funding models, how to make this something of a collective funding scheme to make sure we can do more than maintenance and current operations and really accommodate trade, PGA and CBP needs in the out years," she said. "Institutionalizing the governance and the funding structure are critical elements," she said. Brzozowski described some of the future considerations for ITDS and ACE during the July 27 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting in Boston. While the Border Interagency Executive Council is focused on ITDS, "frankly there's a lot of fatigue on this issue," so "we need to push past that going into the next year," she said.

Full COAC Declines To Recommend Regulatory Requirement for Broker Reporting of Possible AD/CVD Evasion
July 28, 2016 |Customs

The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) did not include a previously mentioned draft recommendation for new antidumping/countervailing duty evasion reporting requirements for customs brokers within recommendations submitted to CBP during its July 27 meeting in Boston. A draft list of COAC recommendations from the COAC AD/CVD Working Group (see 1607260019) recommended that CBP "consider adding a regulatory provision to enable and require customs brokers to report evidence and/or incidents of evasion." That recommendation wasn't mentioned during the COAC meeting, though the working group did recommend continued outreach to customs brokers and the trade industry on the definition of evasion as described in the customs reauthorization law's AD/CVD provisions, known as the ENFORCE Act, that take effect next month (see 1602230080).

COAC Trade Modernization Subcommittee To Look at Rulings Process
July 28, 2016 |Customs

The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) Trade Modernization Subcommittee plans to begin discussions with the CBP Office of Regulations and Rulings "to review the ruling and decision making process," said Lenny Feldman, a lawyer with Sandler Travis who co-chairs the subcommittee. The goal will be to provide "recommendations to facilitate these procedures," Feldman said during the July 27 COAC meeting in Boston. Following up on the previous COAC meeting in April, when that subcommittee offered recommendations on updating customs broker regulations (see 1604270023), CBP is "on track" to provide "formal comments" by Aug. 12, said Jerry Malmo, director of CBP's Commercial Enforcement Division.

CBP To Begin Use of Private Collection Agencies for Uncollected AD/CV Duties
July 28, 2016 |Customs

CBP is working toward contracting with private collections agencies to retrieve uncollected antidumping/countervailing duties, Eugene Schied, acting executive assistant commissioner for Enterprise Services, said during the July 27 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting in Boston. "We've got the authority to start to work with private collections agencies, so we're going to take a crack at that," he said. The agency is going through a procurement process with multiple vendors "just to make sure what we can do to collect that outstanding revenue," he said. Schied, previously assistant commissioner in the Office of Administration, was recently elevated to lead Enterprise Services "with the formal creation of this organization on June 15," according to his CBP bio (here).

CBP Officially Announces End to Electronic Protests in ACS
July 27, 2016 |Customs

CBP will stop accepting protests filed through the Automated Broker Interface (ABI) to the Automated Commercial System (ACS) next month, the agency said in a notice (here). CBP previously said it would require electronic protests to be filed through the ACE protest module as of Aug. 27 (see 1607070032). "The ACE Protest Module is an internet-based processing module which allows a filer to submit an electronic protest to ACE for processing by CBP," it said.