GAO Recommends CBP, USPS Establish Performance Targets for Electronic Advance Data Pilots
Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Postal Service should establish performance objectives to assess effectiveness of ongoing pilots to target international mail for inspection based on electronic advance data, and should examine costs and benefits, GAO reported last week.…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
CBP and USPS agreed with the recommendations. “Because CBP and USPS lack clear performance goals for these pilots, they risk spending additional time and resources expanding them prior to fully assessing the pilots’ success or failure,” GAO said. If electronic advance data remains limited, it could cramp effectiveness of CBP targeting and its ability to reduce the volume of mail it inspects, the report said.