COAC Export Working Group Issues Draft Recommendations
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee’s Secure Trade Lanes Subcommittee Export Modernization Working Group issued draft recommendations ahead of the COAC’s Oct. 7 meeting. The group recommends that CBP work with the Census Bureau and others to define a “clerical error versus a material error” for both Electronic Export Information and manifest filings and issue “appropriate guidance” to CBP personnel. When CBP finds clerical errors in the filings, the group said, CBP should contact the filer for a correction before issuing a penalty. The group also recommended that CBP work with Census to “develop and conduct” mandatory export enforcement training for CBP personnel.
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In a separate government paper, the working group said it completed a series of two-hour “working sessions” since the last COAC meeting (see 2007140043) and has “refined the topics for development of strategic plan.” Its next step continues to be to begin developing a white paper related to CBP’s export modernization strategy “aligned with the 21st Century Initiative” (see 1907250028).