CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Entry filers must transmit data required by the Food and Drug Administration for stand-alone light-emitting diodes, but don’t have to for finished products that incorporate LEDs as indicator lights, FDA Director of Enforcement and Import Operations Doug Stearn said in a letter to the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America dated May 25 (here). The NCBFAA had requested clarification of LED reporting requirements in April. Stearn said FDA recently discovered that some LED products, subject to FDA reporting requirements for radiation-emitting electronic products, were not being transmitted to FDA for review.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Funding is a major and now even more complex concern within the Border Interagency Executive Committee discussions, BIEC members said while speaking at the West Coast Trade Symposium on May 24. "This is the real work, I think, now that we've gotten to the other side of the single window," said Cynthia Whittenburg, deputy executive assistant commissioner at CBP’s Office of International Trade. Adding to the already complicated work in the BIEC, the partner government agencies (PGAs) also now need to consider the effects on other parts of the overall system, said Agriculture Department international issues analyst Robert Berczik of the Food Safety and Inspection Service. "Now it's not simply" making process changes, "you've got to really think through, 'OK, well now what's the domino effect?' and 'Where does this impact everything else that's been developed and is in place down the line?'"
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CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona -- The increase in the de minimis value threshold last year seems already to be driving a shift in international trade patterns, said Brenda Smith, executive assistant commissioner for the CBP Office of Trade, during a May 25 interview at the West Coast Trade Symposium. "What we're seeing is significant changes in supply chains," reflected in the growing number of Section 321 entries, she said. For example, one port in Alabama with few CBP officers "is suddenly getting this flood because it's close to a distribution center," she said. Likely, that's a result of container-loads full of under $800 small packages that qualify for de minimis, she said.
Despite the near elimination of an account for ACE development in the proposed fiscal year 2018 budget (see 1705230031), CBP is requesting additional funding for ensuring the system continues to operate smoothly, according to its FY 2018 budget justification (here). The proposed budget includes an “increase of $45.1 million” in FY 2018 for “ACE Core Functionality,” including funding for additional “software sustainment teams.” CBP is also requesting substantial increases in funding required to implement mandates in the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015.
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona -- CBP is looking at a wide range of options for meeting the goals of the March executive order (see 1704030033) meant to resolve issues of unpaid antidumping and countervailing duties, said Troy Riley, executive director-Commercial Targeting and Enforcement in the CBP Office of Trade. Riley, who is leading implementation of the executive order, discussed several things being considered, including suspending importer of record numbers that haven't been used in years and new bonding schemes, during a panel on May 24 at the West Coast Trade Symposium. Brenda Smith, executive assistant commissioner for the CBP Office of Trade, alluded to the likelihood of additional orders along the same lines. "My guess is we have not seen the end of" trade-focused executive orders, said Smith, who moderated the panel.