CBP issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
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CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The Fish and Wildlife Service partner government agency (PGA) message set pilot in ACE became available May 23 to filers with automated broker interface (ABI) software that have completed FWS testing in the ACE “certification” testing environment, CBP said in a CSMS message. Filers that wish to participate should send an email to FWS identifying the ports where they intend to participate, among other things. Initial filings in the pilot will involve a “technical trace” call with FWS and CBP personnel “at a mutually agreed upon time.” Following the call, FWS must approve the filer for the pilot for the filer to continue to file in the ACE production environment, CBP said. If at any time a filer wants to stop participating, it should contact FWS and CBP so they can be removed from the pilot database, the message said. FWS and CBP will review the results of the pilot 90 days after it starts before deciding whether to extend it.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., introduced a bill meant to prevent "imports of fraudulent organic products that undercut American farmers," she said in a news release. The Organic Farmer and Consumer Protection Act would require that all National Organic Program Import Certificates include information on "the organic standard to which the agricultural product is certified," among other things. The bill would also require the Agriculture Secretary to create a system to track organic import certificates, which may be added "into any existing information tracking systems for imports of agricultural products." The Agriculture Department would also have to publicly release "detailed quantitative data on imports of organically produced agricultural products accepted
into" the U.S.. The legislation also calls for information sharing between ACE and the Hypomania Certificate Issuance and Tracking System of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The bill follows industry concerns and press reports related to cheap imports improperly labeled as organic (see 1705150031).
CBP issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A Directorate of Defense Trade Controls waiver allowing for the return of Personal Protective Equipment when the equipment wasn't properly declared at the time export expired in March, CBP's Port of New York/Newark Director Adele Fasano said in a May 21 notice. The DDTC waiver, issued March 10, 2014, allowed for uniformed military personnel to reimport one set of body armor, one helmet, or one chemical protective gear, including one additional filter canister, CBP said. Effective immediately, all PPE gear "must be declared, citing the appropriate license or license exemption, via the Electronic Export Information in the Automated Export System (AES) at the time of export" and ACE at the time of import, CBP said. Shipments of PPE "that are identified as not having been properly declared at the time of export or at the time of re-importation, will be detained and referred to DDTC to determine if a violation of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations has occurred," the agency said.
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.