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The Senate Finance Committee's chairman and ranking member said it's time to turn their attention to customs modernization, with both saying any bill will need to both enhance enforcement and make legitimate trade move faster and with more certainty.
CBP is extending until April 14 its deadline for customs brokers to submit lists of all current employees in the ACE portal, the agency said in a CSMS message. The deadline was previously Feb. 17. The extension will “give brokers additional time to comply with the requirements and allow for implementation of technical fixes in ACE,” CBP said. Brokers are required to report all current employees, including those not engaged in customs business, to CBP under the recent customs modernization final rule.
Despite concerns from customs brokers that new provisions in CBP’s recent Part 111 final rule could hurt their client relationships, a new reporting requirement for termination of the broker-client relationship should rarely come up, and another provision on record-keeping by brokers when they discover client compliance issues carries with it some silver linings, customs experts said on a Jan. 25 webinar.
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LAREDO, Texas -- CBP hopes to wrap up discussions with the trade on its 21st Century Customs Framework in 2023, “putting a bow” on its consultations with the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee and putting legislative proposals to Congress, said Brandon Lord, CBP executive director-trade policy and programs.
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The E-Merchants Trade Council released on Nov. 28 a detailed “redline” of proposed changes to the customs laws that the trade group is proposing to the 21st Century Customs Framework Task Force as it works with CBP to develop draft customs modernization legislation. The document puts “into specific statutory text EMTC’s recommendations on the Customs Modernization Act of 2021,” the EMTC said in its introduction.
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) will not move forward with a proposal under the 21st Century Customs Framework (21CCF) to make ocean vessel manifest data automatically confidential, according to a report from the 21CCF task force released by the COAC Nov. 28. The provision is one of several listed by the task force in the report that the COAC will no longer advance after recent discussions with CBP.
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