The widespread use of Electronic Cargo Security Devices (eCSDs) would create many new benefits to both private industry and the border enforcement agencies, logistics company Expeditors International said in April 11 comments in CBP's docket on creating a 21st Century Customs Framework. "Trade interests and Customs interests both would be well served if the same trade facilitation benefits currently given to CSDs were afforded to eCSDs," Expeditors said. Such devices would be one way to improve trade security within the e-commerce supply chain, the company said.
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CBP posted a draft version of the CBP and Trade Automated Interface Requirements that includes the coming Entry Type 86 that will be used for Section 321 shipments under the de minimis value threshold. "The Entry Type 86 (Section 321) CATAIR will be available for testing in the CERTIFICATION environment starting in June 2019," CBP said in a CSMS message. The new entry type will require a 10-digit Harmonized Tariff Schedule number, and will give filers of low value entries a way to comply with partner government agency requirements (see 1802130035).
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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).
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- CBP’s revised Form 5106 importer ID requirements are currently getting “final approvals” from the Office of Management and Budget and should be coming “sooner rather than later,” said John Leonard, executive director for CBP Trade Policy and Programs, on Oct. 19. The majority of brokers don’t have to be too worried about the changes, seeing that most compliant brokers are already meeting the revised requirements anyway, Leonard said, speaking at the Western Cargo Conference.
CBP recently posted its “estimated schedule” for upcoming deployments in ACE. Made possible by an additional $34 million in appropriations set aside for CBP ACE development this year (see 1805010035), agency development priorities include Section 321 filing capabilities in the Automated Broker Interface and automation of collection of CBP Form 5106 importer identity information (see 1805230061).
ATLANTA -- An initiative to allow foreign-trade zones to take part in e-commerce distribution is in the early stages after CBP ruled that the role of FTZs is limited, said Jim Swanson, CBP director-cargo and conveyance security and controls, during a panel discussion at the CBP 2018 Trade Symposium on Aug. 14. "We have had discussions with key folks out there at both the Hill and from the various associations where there's a lot of discussion going on about what that really means and what the path forward is for potentially" allowing FTZs to "participate in this." CBP recently ruled that the Section 321 entry exemptions do not apply to bulk shipments sent to FTZs that are broken up for individual consumption entries below the $800 de minimis level prior to a consumer order (see 1807180022).
CBP will move forward with its two-track filing system for Section 321 entries in ACE, creating a new option to clear shipments via entry type 86 in the Automated Broker Interface while still allowing clearance off manifest in the Automated Manifest System, it said in a May 22 announcement of priority areas for $30 million in additional ACE development funding it received in appropriations legislation. As expected by some in industry (see 1802130035), the ABI option will be optional for filers but required for entries with partner government agency (PGA) data, CBP said.
CBP will begin enforcing entry requirements on container residue on Nov. 25, and is launching a pilot on the same date that will allow for simplified “residue entries,” it said in a notice set for publication in the Aug. 27 Federal Register. To qualify for residue entry, the residue must fall under thresholds for weight or volume, and must not have any commercial value. Residue entries will be released under modified procedures for low value shipments. Participation in the pilot is not required. All may participate in the pilot and file residue entries, and those that don’t will have to enter container residue under normal entry procedures.