CBP should adopt a new e-commerce multi-modal supply chain map to help guide decisions in that area, the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) Next Generation Facilitation Subcommittee E-commerce Working Group said in a draft recommendation. CBP released the document ahead of the Feb. 27 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting. The agency should use the map when "considering future policy, automation development, enforcement postures, facilitation programs and education effort," the group said.
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) for CBP will next meet Feb. 27 in Washington, D.C., CBP said in a notice.
Customs brokers should remain a key part of the global supply chain as CBP shifts to better operate in the modern trade environment, providing a “multiplier effect” to the agency’s education and data integrity efforts, the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America said in comments to CBP dated Feb. 4. As e-commerce causes the number of importers to explode and the associated risks to increase accordingly, brokers should be considered “trusted partners, delivering the agency from the chaos of dealing with hundreds of thousands of importers,” the NCBFAA said.
The U.S. should simplify the classification requirements for shipments valued between $800 and $2,500, UPS said in comments to the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The Canada Border Services Agency uses only six classification codes for "casual business/consumer-to-consumer import shipments valued at less than US$500 per item" and the U.S. would benefit from a similar policy, UPS said. The comments were filed in the docket for the U.S.-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council's request for public input on aligning regulatory requirements between the two countries (see 1810120028).
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CBP plans to make use of the new entry type meant for low-value shipments as part of the next blockchain "use case" involving intellectual property rights licensing, said Vincent Annunziato, director of CBP’s Business Transformation and Innovation Division. "We figured out a way to make it so we're tying in the data that we're getting off the licensing to the entry," he said of the test while speaking on a panel during the stakeholder's forum of the U.S.-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council on Dec. 5. "And we're using that new type 86 that hasn't come out yet so a lot of the companies will get a chance to experiment." The new type 86 entry is planned as a way to handle de minimis shipments in the Automated Broker Interface, with a pilot program expected during calendar year 2019 (see 1810200002).
The CBP Office of Field Operations proposes to add a "social compliance" piece to the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) program as part of the effort to stop imports made with forced labor, it said in a strategy document. CBP released the document ahead of the Dec. 5 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting in Herndon, Virginia. According to draft recommendations from the COAC Secure Trade Lanes Subcommittee, adoption of the forced labor strategy document will be recommended.
Customs regimes should make sure authority exists to allow for examinations for potential under- and over-invoiced transactions meant to evade customs duties or conceal profits, the World Customs Organization said in a report on illicit financial flows through misinvoicing. "The Report was endorsed by the WCO Council in June and subsequently presented to the G20 Development Working Group in July 2018, which had originally tasked the WCO with the composition of a report" during a 2016 summit, the WCO said in a Nov. 15 news release. In addition to duty evasion, misinvoicing can be used to "disguise capital flight as a form of trade payment" and "bring illicit proceeds into the domestic legal financial system," the WCO said.
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) for CBP will next meet Dec. 5 in Herndon, Virginia, CBP said in a notice.
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