While a top CBP official didn't give any specifics on how many brokerages were suspended from a pilot that allows electronic clearance of de minimis packages (see 2405310054), he told attendees at an annual National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America conference not to "be afraid of that enforcement," as the brokers who were suspended were so lax that there wasn't even anything that the companies could argue about with CBP.
A subgroup of the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee Secure Trade Lanes Subcommittee laid out eight recommendations for how to beef up communications among CBP's Centers of Excellence and Expertise, brokers and other trade entities amid growing pressures at CBP to be vigilant over forced labor, antidumping and other threats.
CBP posted the following documents for the Sept. 18 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting:
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America, along with more than 175 trade organizations, have asked President Joe Biden to urge the United States Maritime Alliance and the International Longshoremen’s Association to resume negotiations for a new labor agreement before Oct. 1, the date that ILA members might go on strike at container terminals at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports.
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CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
An effort by CBP and the Transportation Security Administration to improve the monitoring of imported air cargo through modifications in data collection is creating confusion among airforwarders and reportedly causing airlines to think twice about delivering cargo to the U.S. and Canada.
CBP will be working on a new Automated Commercial Environment enhancement that calls for a safeguard to prevent the use of a post-summary correction to change a non-quota entry to a quota entry, according to the agency's latest National Development & Deployment Schedule for ACE. The target date for the implementation of this enhancement is Sept. 23.
CBP recently updated FAQs to reflect changes last month to the Air Cargo Advance Screening (ACAS) Implementation Guide 2408220009). The update entails additional codes that would need to be completed by filers responsible for air cargo shipments originating from outside the U.S., starting in early September (see 2408270026). The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America sent an emailed alert to its members about the release of the updated FAQs.
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