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Unverified List Updates

Unverified List updates reflect BIS efforts to assess the legitimacy of foreign recipients of controlled items when end-use checks cannot be completed. Changes to the list signal heightened attention to diversion risks across global supply chains. This section follows new UVL designations, removals and related policy developments that affect screening and due diligence requirements. Coverage helps exporters adapt compliance processes to evolving verification challenges.

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CBP Proposes NAFTA Preference Rules Change
July 7, 2016 |Customs

CBP is considering regulatory changes meant to allow for some spices and other food products to receive preferential treatment under NAFTA, it said in a notice (here). "Contrary to the intentions of the NAFTA parties," such products "are not receiving NAFTA preferential tariff treatment when imported into the United States from Canada or Mexico because they do not qualify to be marked as goods of Canada or Mexico under the NAFTA Marking Rules," it said. CBP seeks to resolve this issue by allowing "the NAFTA preference override to apply to these specific goods," it said. That change "will give effect to the intentions of the NAFTA parties by extending NAFTA preferential tariff treatment to certain goods imported from Canada and Mexico that, under the liberalized rules of origin in General Note 12(t), are considered NAFTA originating as a result of minor processing operations," the agency said. Comments are due Sept. 9.

New ACE Mandatory Use Dates Added
July 7, 2016 |Customs

CBP updated its schedule for mandatory use of ACE to include time frames for protest and drawbacks filing, it said in a CSMS message (here). The added items all follow the July 23 mandatory use date for the vast majority of electronic filings. All electronic protests must be filed through the ACE portal starting Aug. 27, the agency said on its ACE schedule website (here). Starting Oct. 1, "transmission of all remaining electronic portions of the CBP cargo process will be required in ACE," the agency said. That includes duty deferrals, drawback, reconciliation, collections and liquidation, CBP said. CBP will require use of ACE for all remaining Partner Government Agency data, but the exact date is still to be determined, it said. "The updated transition timeline aligns with the December 2016 deadline for full implementation of the Single Window via ACE," CBP said.

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CBP Seeks Comment on Info Collection for Caribbean Basin TPA
July 5, 2016 |Customs

CBP is seeking comments by Sept. 6 on an existing information collection for the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA) forms. CBP proposes (here) to extend the expiration date of this information collection with a change to the burden hours but not the information collected.