The House Ways and Means Committee's Trade Subcommittee has issued an advisory stating that it will hold a hearing on June 17, 2004 on budget authorizations for fiscal year (FY) 2005 and FY 2006 for the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS') Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and on other Customs issues.
21st Century Customs Framework
The 21st Century Customs Framework is a CBP initiative that seeks to modernize the flow of goods into the United States. The goals of the initiative are to enhance facilitation and security, ensure seamless data sharing, increase visibility into modern supply chains, provide enforcement flexibility and streamline processes to deter bad actors and protect U.S. consumers and businesses from unfair competition. CBP created a task force representing U.S. businesses which, after discussions among trade and CBP representatives of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, recommended a series of legislative proposals currently being considered by Congress.
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Multi-word term: Place inside quotes to ensure an exact match together (e.g. "China import").
Term list: Separate terms with spaces, not commas or semicolons to find either word (e.g. AD/CVD antidumping).
Acronyms: Use all capital letters (e.g., ACE).
Required term: If a term must be included in any resulting articles, prefix it with a plus sign (e.g., CBP +releases).
Excluded term: If a term should be excluded from any articles being found, prefix it with a minus sign (e.g., -ruling).
Singular form: Use the singular form when doing multi-word terms (e.g. "russian export control" instead of "russian export controls").
Shortest word form: When you have different word forms in a quoted term, include the shortest version if it is the last part of the expression (e.g., "entity list" instead of "entity listing" or "entity listed").