CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
President Donald Trump on May 5 signed fiscal year 2017 omnibus legislation that will fund the federal government through Sept. 30 and avoid a shutdown, the White House said. The Senate and House this week both passed the compromise bill, which will also require CBP to brief Congress on ACE development efforts within 90 days of enactment (see 1705010037).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The Senate on May 4 passed fiscal year 2017 omnibus legislation that would fund the federal government through Sept. 30 and avoid a shutdown, if President Donald Trump signs it by the end of the day May 5. The House on May 3 passed the compromise bill, which would require CBP to brief Congress on ACE development efforts within 90 days of enactment (see 1705010037). The White House didn’t immediately comment.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The timing for ACE programming related to changes to drawback from the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act is uncertain due to a lack for funding to cover such programming, said Michael Cerny, a lawyer with Cerny Associates. CBP said in its most recent newsletter on drawback progress (here) that the agency discussed TFTEA and ACE during an April 13 teleconference and that similar calls will occur biweekly with a drawback-focused working group that helps advise CBP on drawback in ACE. Cerny, who is also in the drawback working group, said by email that "the trade has concerns about there being enough time for CBP to complete that programming in order to accept claims" by Feb. 24, 2018, as required in TFTEA (see 1603010043).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Acting CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan met with National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America President Geoffrey Powell and NCBFAA lobbyist Jon Kent last week to discuss ACE, the trade group said in a May 1 email to members. Among the topics discussed were "ACE Post CORE," the Border Interagency Executive Committee and "the ACE Downtime Policy," the NCBFAA said. Powell also met with Valerie Neuhart, acting director of CBP’s Office of Trade Relations, "to discuss NCBFAA's role at the Customs Trade Symposium," and with Jeff Nii, director of the CBP Interagency Collaboration, to discuss the BIEC and partner government agency data requirements, it said. Stuart Schmidt, compliance manager at UPS Supply Chain Solutions and a member of the NCBFAA Customs Committee, also attended, the association said.
House lawmakers decided on omnibus legislation (here) that would keep the government funded through Sept. 30 and avoid a government shutdown if signed into law by the end of the day May 5. The bill would fund CBP at $11.4 billion in discretionary funds, $200 million less than President Donald Trump’s request (see 1703160022) for the fiscal 2017 supplemental spending legislation. The bill proposes to fund CBP’s trade and travel operations at $4.1 billion, $300 million less than Trump’s request. Within that CBP portfolio, the legislation proposes to fund the CBP Office of Field Operations’ targeting operations at $149.8 million, a $17.9 million jump over the supplemental budget request, and the Office of Trade at $192.3 million, $4.7 million less than Trump’s request.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: